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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