In addition, hacking has few other forms which are less known and talked about .e.g.
brain hacking, phone hacking etc.
Hacker was a term used to denote a skilled programmer who had competency in machine code and operating systems.
While many others do it for monetary gain or Lulz, while some do it in protest.
We take a look at such mysterious hack attacks where the perpetrator has neither been identified or caught.
WANK worm infected the NASAs DEC VMS computers in 1989 over the DECnet in Maryland.
It was written in DIGITAL Command Language.
The unidentified hackers were traced to Southern England but were never caught.
The hackers managed to reprogram the control system before their exploit was discovered.
UKs military authorities alleged that the hack was done to gain information as to military plans.
The hacker who was known as Beale Screamer had made a program FreeMe which became a overnight hit.
It is thought to be a blackmail scheme which went horribly wrong for the hacker.
Maxus had earlier hacked into CDUniverse website and stolen a wealth of information from its servers.
Maxus was never identified after being traced to Eastern Europe.
ApplyYourself hack
ApplyYourself was an automated app system developed to help students find a good MBA college for themselves.
Happy with his exploit, he shared publically for the students on Business Weeks online forum.
The unknown hacker was never identified and the students who used the hack were rejected by the business schools.
Such weird hack attack have been happening since computers were first developed and Internet became a phenomenon.
source: www.techworm.net
