World's Top 10 Hackers

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 19 September 2011, 16:37 IST   |    37 Comments
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7. Vladimir Levin:
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The Russian born Jewish became famous for being involved in an attempt to fraudulent transfer of $10.7 million through Citibank?s computers. He and his 4 other members with him were involved in this activity. He used a laptop computer in London, England for the access. He stole the customers? codes and passwords. He made a transaction of $3.7 million via wires to accounts his group controlled in United States, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel. He was arrested in London airport in March 1995, was convicted upto 3 years in jail. He had to pay Citibank of amount $240,015.