Kevin Mitnick, a hacker who was the subject of a lengthy manhunt by the FBI in the 1990s that turned him into the nation’s most famous cybercriminal, but who later pivoted to a lucrative career as a cybersecurity consultant, died on July 16. He was 59.
by Shimomura and Times reporter John Markoff that recounted Mr. Mitnick’s crime spree involving stolen credit card numbers and corporate trade secrets. Most of his hacking in the 1990s relied heavily on social engineering — the act of tricking people into revealing confidential information — while others did much of the technical work for him.
in the Register, a U.K. tech publication, that he spent his youth chronically bored, manipulating bus tickets so he could ride around the city for free and performing magic tricks that helped him discover “enjoyment in fooling people.”into a North American Air Defense Command computer as a teenager, and began to appear on the radar of federal law enforcement agencies in his 20s.
“He became a cause célèbre for the internet. There was this idea that he was liberating data, he was liberating information, and that he was just proving how hacking could be done,” he said. “You had a whole bunch of people in the hacker defense community who thought he was the worst thing in the world, and people in the hacker community who thought he was a demigod.”
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