Meet The World’s 5 Most Dangerous Child Hackers
Kristoffer Von Hassel (5 years)
Kristoffer von Hassel is the world’s youngest known hacker and notable for being the youngest “security researcher” listed on tech giant Microsoft’s Security Techcenter as having exposed a security vulnerability. Specifically, Kristoffer was able to bypass the authentication screen of Xbox Live, hence, manage to access games that theoretically could not accessible.
As the BBC and other media reported, that little Kristoffer Von Hassel did not steal any passwords. Just when he appeared to password verification, he pressed the space bar repeatedly and hit ‘Enter’, getting into the account of his father and allowing him to play games and watch videos from YouTube, restricted for their age. In addition, he is considered the youngest hacker in the world and has its own page on Wikipedia .
Reuben Paul (9 years)
9 years, Reuben Paul is already a renowned ethical hacker. Without going any further, he drew the attention of the media world by demonstrating how he was able to steal all data from an Android phone (contacts, call logs and household goods), in just 15 minutes.
Currently, Reuben is the CEO of Prudent Games, the company specializes in developing educational games. As his creations teach children, for example, how to build a truly effective password (Cracker proof) or how an attack works by brute force (Crack Me If You Can). It is also he who hides behind the nickname ‘The Rapstar’ in the famous hacker circles.
As if this were not enough, Reuben is also dedicated to giving lectures around the world.
Betsy Davies (7 years)
Betsy Davies, a seven-year-old British girl who demonstrates how easy it is to hack an open WiFi network. In an experiment carried out by the Channel 5 News and Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Hidemyass.com, the little 7 years old hacked the WiFi network to steal traffic from one of its members just within 10 minutes and 54 seconds only.
To do this, simply she looked a tutorial on Youtube about how to hack a network and then set up a rogue access point: a point often used by hackers against those internet entrusted to view or intercept your web traffic, called Man-in-the-Middle (MITM).
An Unkown Canadian Hacker (12 years)
A news media Toronto Sun mentioned a report that a student of fifth grade in Montreal was responsible for the Denial-of-Service (DoS), spoofing and even defacement attacks on the various sites of the police and the government. The 12-year-old boy caused damage of more than $60,000 and held several sites out of service for days to name Anonymous.
The child was in charge of major attacks and although it was not solely responsible, which itself was led operations and taught others how to do it. The small Canadian hacker passed the data which was stolen from the government websites to the Anonymous group just in exchange for video games, hence, the motives were not political at all.
ACK! 3STX an Austrian Hacker (15 years)
“ACK! 3STX” is a 15 years Austrian hacker and in a very short time, he became one of the best hackers in a forum that gave points for each successful attack. ACK! 3STX successfully entered the sites of 259 companies in less than three months until the software failed and was later discovered and arrested by the Austrian police.
According to the reports, the child stealing data, published and sometimes bragged his achievements on Twitter, but never attacked any specific type of company. As was caught and questioned, the child immediately admitted to being guilty and said have done it because he was bored and wanted to prove he could do it.
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