Monday, April 13, 2009

The World's Most Famous Hacker

Vladimir Levin

Hi all, he is the best hacker in the world. His claim to fame is that this mathematician who graduated from St. Petersburg Tekhnologichesky University was well the brain behind the Russian hacker gang that cheated Citibank's computers into giving out $10 million. Although his first use of a computer is unknown Vladimir was allegedly using his office computer at AO Saturn, a small computer firm in St. Petersburg, Russia, to break into Citibank computers.

Mr. Vladimir Levin was arrested at the Heathrow airport in 1995. TheTools used by him included a computer, computer games and some disks, a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set all of which were found by the Russian police at his apartment. And during his trial, Levin alleged that one of his defence lawyers was actually an FBI agent.


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