found this awesome page about the history of hacking by realhackhistory ۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗ. worth a read! realhackhistory.org

1989: 3 hackers from the hacker group MOD posted the "Happy Thanksgiving" message on the Learning Link's system after destroying data on the system. The phollowing year, during an NBC News broadcast, two of them (Acid Phreak and Phiber Optik) took responsibility phor it.

We are calling on the Tor and Internet freedom community to help us scale up WebTunnel bridges. If you've ever thought about running a Tor bridge, now is the time. Our goal is to deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of this December (2024) to open secure access for users

RELEASE: Andrew Tate staff chats (1.5 GB) [#DDoSecrets URL censored on Elon Musk's X] 148 channels used by staff members for Andrew Tate's subscription course service The Real World and "The Council," a group of Real World users who pay thousands of dollars to participate.

1990: The article, "Terminal Delinquents" was published in Esquire Magazine. It focuses on time spent with the hackers Kool, Oddjob, and Ikon (which aren't their real hacker handles) - in particular hacking NYNEX. textfiles.com/news/terminal.… classic.esquire.com/article/1990/1…

5/ I can't get over the FSB's rebranding of espionage as "network marketing"

happy birthday to DDoSecrets! one of the most important institutions of the current day free internet

1996: Julian Assange pleaded guilty to 25 of 31 hacking charges and related charges and was ordered to repay $2,100 to Australian National University. He had been arrested in 1994 for hacking crimes committed in 1991. The court case details weren't released until 2011.

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The Seiko Data-2000 from 1984

1992: Kevin Poulsen was indicted for illegally obtaining Air Force secret data, the first US Federal espionage charges for computer crimes.

1989: Joseph Lewis Popp allegedly mailed floppy disks to recipients in the UK which were labeled "AIDS Information Introductory Diskette", but contained the AIDS trojan which demanded $189 to "renew the license" by sending money to a post office box in Panama. Early ransomware!

If anyone out there knows more about this very early government spyware, Signal is: +1 917 257 1382

anti-malware propaganda 😡

I wrote a blog about an anti-apartheid protest that took place in 1984, at Oberlin College in Ohio, and the fact that a smaller group of students tried to shut down campus computer services as part of the activist action. realhackhistory.org/2025/01/20/fir…

Breaking this three section #blog on the #history of #India & #Pakistan #hacker #conflict into separate entries. This is part one, looking at 1998 to 2008. You can read about groups involved on both sides, websites #hacked & how the media covered it all. realhackhistory.org/2025/07/01/ind…

10 #hacker #movies you have missed! realhackhistory.org/2025/09/19/top…

#Blog about the first patriotic #cyberwar undertaken by #hackers in #China, in response to violence against ethnic #Chinese people in #Indonesia back in 1998. This is the most complete account of this first instance of Chinese #hacktivism. #History realhackhistory.org/2025/09/22/his…