About the fate of well-known cybercriminals

[Hacker]

Robert Tappan Morris
He is also the creator of such a virus as the "worm", which can reproduce itself again and again. Malware replicates so quickly and in such quantity that it can infect most of the files on the device in a short time, thus paralyzing the operation of the operating system. In 1988, as an experiment, Morris launched his first "worm" into the Network, which disabled almost 6 thousand PCs in the United States. The author himself, according to him, did not even suspect what kind of "beast" he released out: infecting the computer, the virus searched for passwords to user accounts.

Kevin Mitnick
This man was led to the next five years of imprisonment by his desire to ride public transport for free. Or rather, that's how it all started.
It was like this. At first, the resourceful Mitnick tricked the Los Angeles bus system by buying a special ticket punch that put a date on it, and rode public transport for free. Then the future cybercriminal was only 12 years old. Then Mitnick decided to change his qualifications: he became a phone fraudster, starting with pranks on neighbors, and then making calls wherever he wanted – of course, without paying the required 10 cents.
In 1980, Mitnick made his first hack: his "victim" was a school local network and the hacker was interested not in the result, but in the process of "opening" itself (he did not use the fruits of labor and did not even correct his grades).
A few more years of practice – and Mitnick is already wanted for hacking the Digital Equipment Corporation network and stealing the company's programs. After a while, it breaks the Nokia and Motorola networks. There were also attempts to hack the Pentagon, and over the years Mitnick received several suspended sentences. And the second time he was "handed over" by an accomplice, calling a friend "a threat to society."
Kevin had no luck at all when he was caught by the FBI (1995) after hacking into the home computer of a leading American computer security specialist, Tsutomu Shimomura. In total, Mitnick was charged with 23 counts of fraud. The court sentenced him to five years in prison. After being released from prison, the former hacker was still banned from using a computer until 2003. Subsequently (2010) Kevin Mitnick became involved in the protection of computer systems, becoming the founder of the company Defensive Thinking Inc., which specializes in computer and network security.

"Homeless Hacker" by Adrian Lamo
Lamo got his nickname for his love of working in Internet cafes and public libraries. Lamo searched for bugs in security systems and cracked them without being hired for this work by any of the companies. At a time when someone did such work for money, Lamo worked, as they say, "for the soul". The victims of his attacks were corporations such as Microsoft, Yahoo and the New York Times. As a joke, Lamo added his contact information to the databases.

An intrusion into the NY Times network forced the hacker to part with luck. After this break-in, he was finally caught and sentenced to six months of house arrest and two years of probation. The court also forced him to pay $ 65,000 in compensation.
Now Adrian Lamo is 36 years old, he is a well-known journalist and specialist in the field of information security. It was he who, at the end of May 2010, told the US authorities about the documents handed over by the soldier Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks, where, among other things, there was a recording of the shooting of a group of civilians by an American military helicopter in Iraq.

Raphael Gray
He is known by the nickname "The Righteous One". The first serious hack was made at the age of 18 from an ordinary home computer in one of the villages of Wales. He stole bank card passwords solely for good purposes, according to him: to find "holes" in the security systems of online stores. Data of 26 thousand customers of online markets, he posted in the public domain. Since 2001, Raphael Gray has been undergoing compulsory psychiatric treatment.

Dmitry Galushkevich
It was the reason for the "downfall" of the Internet in Estonia in 2007. The country's authorities blamed Russia for everything, and it can't be said that they were so wrong: the Internet shutdown turned out to be the work of 20-year-old ethnic Russian Dmitry Galushkevich. It is still unknown whether he committed cyberterrorism alone or together with like-minded people, but the hacker managed to gain access to all Estonian PCs, rebooting the servers of which disabled ATMs and public and private systems.
Thousands of crowns (more than 1,100 euros) for cyber attacks on the website and computer system of the Reformist Party.

Jonathan James
An American hacker who hacked the US Department of Defense's computer system in 1999. James roamed the Web freely and even stole several documents, including the source code for the international space station. James was lucky: at the time of committing cybercrime, he was only 15 years old and this saved him from a long prison sentence. He managed to "get off" with only six months of imprisonment. NASA estimated the loss at $ 1.7 million. Eight years later, a young hacker committed suicide: as noted in the press – "under mysterious circumstances."

Benjamin Stark and Robert Little (Deceptive Duo)
The US Navy, NASA, the FAA and the Department of Defense were targeted by two hackers: 20-year-old Benjamin Stark and 18-year-old Robert Little. Like many other cybercriminals caught, they tried to justify hacking security systems with concern for their own country. The guys tried so hard to help find vulnerabilities that for some reason they posted the email addresses of civil servants and classified web resources on popular sites.
In the end, the case, as always, ended in court. Stark was given two years of probation, and Little was given four months of probation with a three-year probation period. It was not without monetary losses: both of them paid tens of thousands of dollars to the treasury.