Hackers and information security experts

Jeanson James Ancheta

The first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets.

Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya

Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya is a former Russian money mule hacker

Karl Koch

Nickname: hagbard

Ehud Tenenbaum

Nickname: The Analyzer

Israeli cracker.

Leonard Rose

Nickname: Terminus

American hacker who in 1991 accepted a plea bargain that convicted him of two counts of wire fraud stemming from publishing an article in Phrack magazine.

Rafael Nunez

Nickname: RaFa

Venezuelan computer security professional and ethical hacker (white hat hacker).

Andrew Auernheimer

Nickname: weev

Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer is an American black hat hacker Internet troll and neo-Nazi.

Mark Abene

Nickname: Phiber Optik

Mark Abene is an infosec expert and entrepreneur, originally from New York City. He was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception.