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- Bill Wall's list of hacker incidents
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- 1961.12.00 Caltech hackers hacked the cards at a football game with U of Washington
- 1971.00.00 John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) uses whistle (blue box) to access Ma Bell
- 1972.05.00 John Draper arrested for phone fraud
- 1981.00.00 Mitnick broke into the records of LA Unified School District, Monroe HS
- 1981.05.30 Mitnick gets into Pac Bell's COSMOS phone center; takes passwords
- 1982.00.00 Mitnick (Condor) cracks Pacific Telephone system and TRW; destroys data
- 1982.00.00 414 Gang raided.
- 1983.00.00 Mitnick arrested for gaining illegal access to the ARPAnet & Pentagon
- 1984.00.00 Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante) arrested for breaking into the ARPAnet
- 1986.00.00 Chaos Computer Club cracks German government computer that had info about Chernobyl
- 1986.09.16 hackers break into Stanford Unix computers
- 1987.07.05 hackers got secret access codes from Sprint
- 1987.09.18 hacker accesses AT&T computers, stealing $1 million worth of s/w
- 1987.09.28 hackers from Brooklyn penetrate MILNET
- 1987.11.23 Chaos Computer Club hacks NASA's SPAN network
- 1987.12.00 Mitnick sentenced for stealing s/w from SCO
- 1988.09.00 "Prophet" cracks BellSouth AIMSX computer network
- 1988.11.02 Internet worm sent out by Robert Morris; overflowed fingerd buffer
- 1988.11.23 hacker cracks USAF Sperry 1160 computer in San Antonio
- 1988.12.16 Mitnick cracks MCI DEC network, steals VMS source code and XSafe
- 1989.06.21 hacker cracks USAF satellite-positioning satellite
- 1989.07.22 Fry Guy cracks into MacDonald's mainframe; also stole credit cards
- 1989.10.16 WANK worm attacked SPAN VAX/VMS systems
- 1990.00.00 Lamprecht (Minor Threat) cracks into warez site; write ToneLoc
- 1990.03.07 Denver hacker cracks NASA computer at Huntsville and Greenbelt
- 1990.03.21 hacker cracks Cliff Stoll's computer and adds message
- 1990.04.00 hackers from Netherlands penetrated DoD sites
- 1990.10.15 hackers break into British clearing banks
- 1991.01.00 Lamprecht (Minor Threat) hacks into Southwestern Bell; wrote ToneLoc
- 1991.03.00 hacker penetrates NASA, NIH, Bureau of Land Mgt, BBN
- 1991.04.21 Dutch hackers from Eindhoven break into US military computers
- 1991.06.21 Kevin Poulsen arrested for breaking into Pacific Bell phones
- 1991.07.00 Justin Petersen (Agent Steal) arrested for breaking into TRW, stealing credit cards
- 1991.09.00 Justin Petersen released from prison to help FBI track crackers
- 1992.00.00 Dallas computer maker discovers planted network sniffer on computer fax machine
- 1992.00.00 hackers get root at Eindhoven U of Technology in the Netherlands
- 1992.00.00 Morty Rosenfeld convicted after hacking into TRW, stealing credit card numbers
- 1992.02.00 Lamprecht (Minor Threat) steals circuit boards
- 1992.07.00 Lamprecht is caught attempting to sell stolen microprocessors
- 1992.11.00 Mitnick cracks into California Dept of Motor Vehicles
- 1992.12.00 hacker arrested for penetrating NASA, NIH, BBN, etc
- 1993.00.00 food scientist gained access to General Mills mainframe computers
- 1993.08.00 Justin Petersen arrested for stealing computer access equipment
- 1993.10.28 Randal Schwartz uses Crack at Intel to crack passwords
- 1994.02.00 hacker installs network sniffer and grabbed 100,000 names and passwords
- 1994.02.00 Texas Racing Commission computer hacked into
- 1994.02.01 hacker spoofed a Dartmouth professor using email to cancel tests
- 1994.03.23 hackers broke into Rome Lab, Griffiss AFB from UK; used sniffer
- 1994.06.13 Citibank hacked by Vladimir Levin; $10 million in illegal transfers
- 1994.07.14 French student Damien Doligez cracks 40-bit RC4 encryption
- 1994.07.21 hackers crack into the Pentagon, altering and erasing records
- 1994.08.00 Justin Petersen electronically steals $150k from Heller Financial
- 1994.09.00 Netcom's credit card database was on-line an accessible to the unauthorized
- 1994.10.00 Michael Smyth, a regional manager at Pillsbury, fired due to intercepted email
- 1994.10.12 computer engineer cracks Marks & Spencer security file containing PIN numbers
- 1994.11.01 hacker cracks FBI's conference-calling system; made $250,000 in calls
- 1994.12.00 US Naval Academy computer system hacked; sniffer programs installed
- 1994.12.00 authors were targets of electronic mail bomb
- 1994.12.00 CrackBuster issued cancels for every message in alt.2600; flooded groups
- 1994.12.25 Mitnick cracks into Tsutomu Shimomura's security computers; stole s/w tools
- 1995.01.00 Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) incarcerated for hacking; banned from Internet
- 1995.01.27 Mitnick cracks into the Well; puts Shimomura's files there and Netcom credit card numbers
- 1995.02.15 Mitnick captured; broke into NORAD, PacBell, CA DMV, etc; had 20,000 credit card numbers
- 1995.04.00 Journalist David Pogue's AOL account deleted by hackers
- 1995.04.05 SATAN security tool released to the Internet
- 1995.05.05 Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) becomes 1st person banned from Internet
- 1995.06.02 hackers using Vanderbilt computers hack Air Force site - caught
- 1995.07.00 crackers tapped into Navy computer system and gained access to French and Allied data
- 1995.07.00 Julio Ardita of Argentina cracked into US military computers, Harvard, NASA
- 1995.07.25 Randal L Schwartz convicted of hacking under Oregon's Computer Crime Law
- 1995.07.28 hacker from Calgary freenet uses sendmail attack on gov sites
- 1995.08.04 hacker cracked NY Times Internet service, bringing it down
- 1995.08.15 several hackers crack Netscape 40-bit SSL; Damien Doligez used 120 computers
- 1995.09.11 Golle Cushing (Alpha Bits) arrested for selling credit card and cell phone info
- 1995.09.16 Berkeley students cracked Tower Records/Video computers; $20,000 charged
- 1995.09.17 Hackers discover weakness in Netscape random number generator; SSL cracked
- 1995.10.23 1st court-ordered wiretap on a computer network; at Harvard
- 1995.11.00 buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator host name made it vulnerable
- 1995.12.20 NASA Ames Research Center home page hacked
- 1995.12.28 Julio Ardita arrested in Argentina for hacking into Harvard
- 1996.01.01 1st court authorized wiretap of an ISP; cell-fraud thru Compuserve
- 1996.01.15 Swedish computer hacker hacks into 911 phone system in FL
- 1996.01.22 Chaos taps cleartext transmission of banking information
- 1996.01.25 Russian pleads guilty of participating in Citibank wire fraud
- 1996.01.29 Digital Planet's web site for MGM/UA's "Hackers" Site hacked
- 1996.02.15 Hackers altered UK talking bus stops for use to the blind
- 1996.02.27 BerkshireNet in MA hacked; data erased and system shut down
- 1996.03.05 whitehouse.gov flooded with forged email; denial of service
- 1996.03.06 Boston ISPs hacked by U4ea; deleted Boston Globe web pages
- 1996.03.17 Telia, Sweden's biggest ISP, home page hacked
- 1996.04.05 N00gz indicted for computer fraud; accessed Bell, Sprint, SRI
- 1996.04.19 NYPD voice-mail system hacked
- 1996.04.27 Cambridge U hacked; confidential files broken into
- 1996.05.15 Datastream Cowboy from UK arrested for breaking into Rome Labs
- 1996.06.15 Two UK hackers charged with intruding into Lockheed computers
- 1996.06.20 14-year old arrested for using fraudulent credit card numbers
- 1996.06.25 hackers penetrate the public library network of a state
- 1996.07.05 1st known Excel virus, Laroux
- 1996.07.09 Ontario group gets into computers at a base in VA
- 1996.07.10 HS students crack a drink manufacturer's computer voice-mail system
- 1996.08.00 Fort Bragg soldier compromised military computer system; distributed passwords
- 1996.08.04 US hackers crack computers of the European parliament and commission
- 1996.08.16 Department of Justice home page hacked at www.usdoj.gov
- 1996.08.25 American Psychoanalytic Association hacked
- 1996.08.29 Nation of Islam web page hacked
- 1996.08.30 British Conservative Party webpage hacked
- 1996.09.06 hackers shut down PANIX, New York's Public Access Networks; SYN attack
- 1996.09.17 computer files with names of 4,000 AIDS patients taken in Florida
- 1996.09.18 CIA home page (www.odci.gov/cia) hacked by 5 Swedish hackers
- 1996.09.18 Internet Chess Club hit by hacker attack
- 1996.09.19 hacker cracks Palisades, NJ school system
- 1996.09.20 cancelbot attacks Usenet; 25,000 messages wiped out
- 1996.09.25 Kevin Mitnick indicted for damaging computers at USC, stealing s/w
- 1996.10.05 Wazzu virus released
- 1996.10.15 disgruntled employee wipes out all computer files at Digital Technologies Group
- 1996.10.22 hackers crack Czech banks; steal $2 million
- 1996.10.23 Fort Bragg, NC paratrooper hacked U.S. Army systems and gave passwords to China
- 1996.10.25 Florida Supreme Court home page hacked
- 1996.11.05 hackers attack anti-military site (www.insigniausa.com); erased files
- 1996.11.08 NY Times web site hit by SYN-flood attack; DoS
- 1996.11.10 Latin Summer Meeting home page hacked; porno and satire added
- 1996.11.12 Kriegsman furs web page hacked by animal rights activist; used phf hack
- 1996.11.17 hackers removed songs from computers at U2's Dublin studio
- 1996.11.21 Danish Research group get into computers at TX base
- 1996.11.22 NY city workers falsified computer records in largest tax fraud in NY
- 1996.11.26 Web site that provided news about Belarus leader was destroyed
- 1996.11.27 Nethosting and 1500 client home pages hacked
- 1996.11.29 Disgruntled computer technician brings down Reuters trading net in Hong Kong
- 1996.12.06 England's Labour Party web site hacked
- 1996.12.14 hackers attack WebCom, knocking out 3,000 web sites; used SYN-flood
- 1996.12.16 hackers crack Yale School of Medicine web page with the phf hack
- 1996.12.16 NASA home page hacked (Goddard); hack has both frames and JavaScript
- 1996.12.20 6 Danish hackers sentenced for attacking Pentagon computers
- 1996.12.23 Zhangyi Liu arrested in Dayton for cracking into WPAFB computers; had passwords
- 1996.12.29 Air Force home page hacked at DTIC; DefenseLINK shut down
- 1996.12.30 NASA home page hacked again by StOrM
- 1997.01.06 Croatians intrude into computers at Anderson AFB, Guam
- 1997.01.08 hacker crashed California state agency computer - Legal Employment Network
- 1997.01.13 Crack dot Com hacked; Doom, Quake, Golgotha source code downloaded
- 1997.01.15 hacker sentenced to prison for reprogramming Taco Bell computers
- 1997.01.17 Government of Victoria, Australia home page hacked
- 1997.01.29 phf hack from Belgium to TX base
- 1997.02.03 hackers spoof Eastern Avionics web page to grab credit card numbers
- 1997.02.05 German Chaos group uses ActiveX and Quicken to withdraw money
- 1997.02.07 Planned Parenthood stops use of plannedparenthood.com domain name
- 1997.02.10 Indonesia's Dept of Foreign Affairs homepage hacked
- 1997.02.15 AOL Court TV site with news on OJ Simpson trial hacked
- 1997.03.03 Loran International hit by a denial of service attack
- 1997.03.05 NASA homepage hacked
- 1997.03.09 NCAA WWW site hacked; pages changed by 14-year old
- 1997.03.12 IP floods of SMTP causes DoS at base in VA
- 1997.03.16 The Well hit by hackers. Passwords stolen, files deleted, trojans planted
- 1997.03.19 Spammer Cyber Promotions suffers hack attack
- 1997.04.01 Malaysia's national telecommunications company home page hacked
- 1997.04.05 NASA web site hacked
- 1997.04.15 San Antonio's Express News web site server system hacked
- 1997.04.17 Cyber Promotions broken into, web page altered, password file stolen
- 1997.04.21 hacker provokes AOL to shut down Klan site
- 1997.04.26 Amnesty International homepage hacked
- 1997.04.27 British Conservative Party got hacked
- 1997.05.23 Carlos Salgado grabs 100,000 credit card numbers from San Diego; used a sniffer
- 1997.05.27 The Lost World Jurassic Park homepage hacked
- 1997.05.29 hacker hit LAPD
- 1997.06.00 Netcom voice-mail hacked by "Mr Nobody"
- 1997.06.03 Delaware law enforcement officers get teenager cracking NASA
- 1997.06.11 USDA site hacked
- 1997.06.16 pro-spam hacker reported
- 1997.06.18 hackers in CO crack RSA's 56-bit DES encryption
- 1997.06.20 hackers caused denial of service to Microsoft's NT IIS web server
- 1997.06.25 Geocities frontpage got hacked
- 1997.06.30 hackers cause DoS on Microsoft NT server with header packets
- 1997.07.11 ESPN and nba.com (starwave) shut down after hacker emails shoppers credit info
- 1997.07.14 Danish computer guy finds hole in Netscape; asks for big reward money
- 1997.07.15 Canadian Security Intelligence Service got hacked
- 1997.07.18 hackers attack Swedish Crack-a-Mac site
- 1997.07.18 hackers attack MacInTouch - SYN flood
- 1997.08.01 Long Island group added a Trojan horse to hijack users' modem
- 1997.08.08 George Mason Univ students hacked their way into the Univ computers
- 1997.08.10 Cyper Promotions servers hacked
- 1997.08.16 Experian (TRW credit bureau) Internet allowed wrong credit reports
- 1997.08.18 Crack a Mac front page got hacked at hacke.infinit.se
- 1997.09.01 Altavista homepage got hacked (altavista.com)
- 1997.09.15 hackers hit coca-cola web site
- 1997.09.24 lince.com NT server got hakced
- 1997.09.25 Florida State School of Criminalogy NT server got hacked
- 1997.09.26 sterlingcorp.com NT server got hacked
- 1997.09.26 US Geological Survey NT server got hacked
- 1997.09.27 methodisthealth.com NT server got hacked
- 1997.09.30 ValueJet homepage got hacked
- 1997.10.01 hacker spoof SANS Security Digest newsletter; hacks into ClarkNet ISP
- 1997.10.05 hackers get into www.pentagon-ai.army.mil home page
- 1997.10.06 hacker breaks into Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
- 1997.10.14 Yale e-mail account servers hacked; sniffer used
- 1997.10.19 RSA's RC5 56-bit encryption key cracked by Bovine effort
- 1997.10.31 Eugene Kashpureff arrested; redirected the NSI web page to his Alternic
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