This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mimeat_private for more info. --------------5D6530F810AD Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990210041910.12231Fat_private> [Moderator: Found this earlier this evening and thought I would post it. Quite an interesting history and timeline.] http://www.txdirect.net/~wall/hacker.htm Bill Wall's list of hacker incidents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------5D6530F810AD-- -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". 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