Which are the best hacks of all times?

5. Hacking the BBC – live  It was not the most complicated hack ever but, it was made a little bit history of all time by hacking the broadcast on live television. In October 1983, the BBC two hour live special on  television -demonstrating a fascinating, little known technology called e-mail.The presenters showed how it was possible to ‘log on’ to the computer and access their mail – only to discover, live on air, that their account had been hacked.

The hackers – Oz and Yug – left them a little song

Hackers’ Song “Put another password in,Bomb it out and try again Try to get past logging in,We’re hacking, hacking, hacking1

Try his first wife’s maiden name,This is more than just a game,It’s real fun, but just the same,It’s hacking, hacking, hacking”

To their credit, the presenters reacted to it with good humor, and carried on the show.

4. The Russian Job In 1995 , a russian geek Vladimir Levin get access to the computers of banking giant Citibank and hacked the data base of the bank, and able to transfer a huge amount of $10.7 million into various account of him and his accomplishes had set up.

Rumors persist that he wasn’t actually the mastermind behind the operation, and had simply exploited work already done by another Russian hacking group who were too polite to steal any money.He was arrested and put to the jail for 3 years.

Kevin Poulsen: don’t be scared, lots of people had hair like that in the early 90s

3. The 102nd caller Once again, not the grandest hack ever, but one of the cheekiest – when a Los Angeles radio station, KIIS-FM, announced a competition in which the 102nd caller to their station would win a Porsche, Kevin Poulsen – a notorious hacker who went by the name Dark Dante – simply took over the stations phonelines to guarantee that he’d be the 102nd caller. Which is a neat trick.

After some time spent on the run, Poulsen was eventually captured and jailed for 51 months for his many hacking activities.

After his release from prison, Poulsen took a bit of a step down in the world – by becoming journalist. Now a senior editor at Wired News, where he writes about security issues, he hit the headlines again in 2006 when he wrote a script to discover registered sex offenders on MySpace.

2. Stealing NASA’s ‘crappy’ software Only 15 at the time of his most notorious hacking exploits, in 1999 Jonathan James managed to hack into not just the US Department of Defense, but also into NASA – where he stole software worth (NASA claimed) $1.7 million, and forcing them to shut their systems down for three weeks.

In an impressive display of chutzpah, James said that he’d only copied the software to help him improve his programming skills – but that he’d been disappointed, because the code was ‘crappy’ and ‘certainly not worth $1.7 million’.

The first juvenile to be convicted of cyber crime in America, James ultimately spent six months in jail, and was forced to write letters of apology to NASA and the DoD. Sadly, James died in May this year.

1. No idea Obviously, we don’t know what the greatest hack in history was. Because if we knew about it, it wouldn’t be the greatest hack, would it?