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Top 10 Unsolved Hacks

by Terrence O'Brien on October 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM

Top 10 Unsolved HacksWe've spent a decent amount of time covering hacks and hackers. But for all our talk about great (as in skilled) hackers there is one glaring mistake they've all made -- they got caught. The really skilled ones get away scot-free, sometimes with out even being identified by their handles.

PC Magazine has compiled a list of the ten most mysterious cyber-crimes, ones where the perpetrator got away and left investigators baffled. The list includes acts of protest and consumer heroism, such as Beale Screamer's FreeMe software that stripped DRM protection from DVDs; as well as disturbing attacks that compromised national security, like the 2000 theft of source code for military satellites by an intruder known only as Leaf. This year's intrusion at Hannaford Brothers and Sweetbay that compromised the credit card numbers of 4.2 million customers even made the list.

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