Timeline History of Computer
Hacking
| 1990.01.15 | 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 |
| 1992.01.02 | hackers get root at Eindhoven U of Technology in the Netherlands |
| 1992.01.20 | Morty Rosenfeld convicted after hacking into TRW, stealing credit card numbers |
| 1992.11.00 | Mitnick cracks into California Dept of Motor Vehicles |
| 1992.12.00 | hacker arrested for penetrating NASA, NIH, BBN, etc |
| 1993.01.12 | food scientist gained access to General Mills mainframe computers |
| 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 |
| 1994.03.23 | DataStream Cowboy (Pryce) broke into Rome Lab, Griffiss AFB from UK; used sniffer |
| 1994.06.13 | Citibank hacked by Vladimir Levin; $12 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 |
| 1994.10.12 | 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 |
| 1994.12.25 | Mitnick cracks into Tsutomu Shimomura's security computers; stole s/w tools |
| 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 |
| 1995.06.02 | 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 |
| 1995.08.04 | hacker cracked NY Times Internet service, bringing it down |
| 1995.08.15 | several hackers crack Netscape 40-bit SSL; Damien Doligez used 120 computers |
| 1995.09.16 | Berkeley students cracked Tower Records/Video computers; $20,000 charged |
| 1995.09.17 | Hackers discover weakness in Netscape random number generator; SSL cracked |
| 1995.12.20 | 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 |
| 1996.01.29 | 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 |
| 1996.06.25 | 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 |
| 1996.07.31 | Tim Lloyd plants s/w time bomb at Omega Engineering in NJ; 1st federal computer sabotage case |
| 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 |
| 1996.09.00 | Helsingius closes penet.fi anonymous remailer; Finnish police wants Scientology user |
| 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 |
| 1996.11.26 | 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 |
| 1996.12.23 | 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 |
| 1997.01.17 | 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 |
| 1997.02.10 | 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 |
| 1997.04.00 | internal hacker crashed Forbes Inc computer system; used "time bomb" and had passwords |
| 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 |
| 1997.04.26 | Amnesty International homepage hacked |
| 1997.04.27 | British Conservative Party got hacked |
| 1997.05.15 | hacker floods NASA communications to Atlantis Shuttle/Mir mission; delays transmission |
| 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 |
| 1997.06.18 | 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 |
| 1997.07.15 | 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 |
| 1997.08.18 | 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 |
| 1997.11.10 | dragonserve.com hacked in Hong Kong |
| 1997.11.11 | DIU homepage hacked Claire Danes |
| 1997.11.14 | Spice Girls website hacked CodeZero |
| 1997.11.15 | China's Agricultural Univeristy hacked; condemned nuke tests |
| 1997.11.21 | Springfield College hacked Mr 9X (GM 288) |
| 1997.11.23 | SyMark Software hacked properstuff |
| 1997.11.28 | Local 2609 hacked Magica de Bin |
| 1997.12.01 | Secure Network Systems hacked Magica de Bin |
| 1997.12.02 | CA Dept of Fish and Game hacked |
| 1997.12.04 | e-mail bomb threat sent to Goodyear Tire store in WI Newman, Chad |
| 1997.12.05 | Fastcomm Australasia hacked Magica de Oct |
| 1997.12.05 | tourne.com hacked Claire Danes |
| 1997.12.05 | University of Technology, Sydney physics server hacked Magica |
| 1997.12.06 | five commercial sites hacked KAOS 97 |
| 1997.12.07 | British Field Sports Society hacked Atrocity |
| 1997.12.08 | www.yahoo.com hacked pantz; h4gis |
| 1997.12.09 | Plumas Sierra, CA ISP hacked 404 |
| 1997.12.10 | OR Dept of Forestry website hacked CyberToast |
| 1997.12.10 | OneTouch, Inc hacked Claire Danes |
| 1997.12.11 | FOX network hacked; page pointed to NBC |
| 1997.12.11 | NetAdv hacked The Bookie |
| 1997.12.11 | HQ USAF homepage hacked; files renamed |
| 1997.12.13 | www.centerfold-aa.org hacked CyberToast |
| 1997.12.13 |