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Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes. [5]
Jul 21, 2023 · Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous hackers in the history of cybersecurity, died over the weekend at age 59 after a more than year-long battle with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a...
Jul 20, 2023 · Kevin Mitnick, who at the dawn of widespread internet usage in the mid-1990s became the nation’s archetypal computer hacker — obsessive but clever, shy but mischievous and threatening to an...
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Jul 20, 2023 · Kevin Mitnick’s first hack was in 1979 when he broke into The Ark — a computer at the University of Southern California (USC) that handled the school’s administrative functions. Mitnick utilized a software vulnerability to gain access and continue his subterfuge in private.
Jul 20, 2023 · Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 of complications arising from...