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HELLO NETRUNNERS!! This is your place of worship. Or at least it sure as hell is mine. This is where all notable or praiseworthy stories of the net are gathered. Some might be fictional, some might be from another world, and some might even be real... who knows? Anyways, stay on-line for more ;)


[THE SMILING HACKER]

The smiling hacker, alias BX1, was a hacker primarily active in the 2010s. Why smiling? we'll get to that later. For now, let's talk about his career. BX1 wrote a malware called SpyEye with the goal to enter bank accounts and then empty them. His motive for writing and using this malware was simple; charity. He was donating money he stole off rich accounts to charities and the like (although wether he did it or not was a lie is still debated, but this is what the man himself claims). He eventually got caught in Bangkok, and was arrested all while smiling (hence, the smiling hacker). He got extradited to atlanta and tried in 2015. this was after a three year chase, which culminated in that arrest. Keep in mind, around that time, BX1 was in the top 10 most wanted people list of the FBI. Now that's a compliment if i've ever seen one. He did not get sentenced to death, although it was proposed, but it was thought that computer crimes were not worthy of that sentence. He was jailed though, obviously, once the fun police catches you, there's no escape I suppose. But he is currently a free man. Many support him and see him as a symbol of rebellion against the corruptbanking world, others (mainly bankers) fear what he might do with his newfound freedom.

[TERROR IN GITHUB]

Some of you might remember this, some of you might not, but I suppose all of you know what github is, right? well, in 2018, catastrophy struck the servers when what is now remembered as the biggest DDoS attack in history fell upon github. The attack lasted only 9 minutes. It happened between 17:21 and 17:30 on February 28th. The Net traffic peak was that of a whopping 1,35 terabytes of data. Insane amounts. Overall, the site was COMPLETELY unavailable for the next 10 minutes due to it having DDoS protection measures in place. That is 10 minutes of the page ceasing to exist. It might not sound like much, but it is A. LOT. Despite this, the page went back to running that same day, however, recovery took a bunch of weeks after the attack. No greater DDoS attacks have been registered as of the current day. The author of the attack is unknown, but it is said that it might have originated from china, but this is still discussed.

[DATA-BREACHING FACEBOOK]

The year is 2019. You are reading some news article about Zuckerberg selling your private intel to third-parties. Whatever right? just some more guys spreading not-so-news and getting clicks on the net, they do it for a living. Well, next day you and other five-hundred and thirty-three million users have just had their accounts compromised and their data sold off. What. Just. Happened. Ok this is massive, facebook had a major flaw in their data fortress, more specifically, in their contact importer system. Hackers exploited this via a technique called scraping-think of it as digital fishing. And boy did they fish. They cast the net far and wide and picked up from full names to addresses to biographical intel... This also changed how social media corps were held accountable by the way, baby steps, but steps towards a bit of justice nonetheless. Users were also offered compensation thanks to those measures, which was SO satisfying to see honestly. Corporations losing money? Im all about that baby.

[THE BRITISH LIBRARY GETS PWNED]

Let's have a more recent story for a change, shall we? The British Library holds some really really important information for the government and country, some might even call it sensitive. Anyhow, in october 2023, a group known as the Rhysida Ransomware Group exposed shy of 600 gigabytes of data, which was for the most part HIGHLY sensitive information for the government. The attackers probably found exploitable gaps in the athentification systems of the library and used those to get into the data fortress, and after a failed ransom attempt, they released it. Or so it is said. The stunt cost the British Library anywhere between six and seven million british pounds to fix over a couple of months. And disrupting pretty much all other operations up till then. Outstanding hacking performance going on here.