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Thank CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues created by Dream! CTOnews.com, July 20 (Xinhua) Kevin Mitnick (Kevin David Mitnick), who is considered "the world's number one hacker" in the industry, confirmed that he died on July 16, 2023 at the age of 59.

Photo Source: Kevin Mitnick's official Twitter he was born on August 6, 1963, is an American computer security consultant, writer and hacker.

At the age of 16, he became the world's first online juvenile delinquent after being arrested by a computer tracking machine for social engineering to crack Pacific Telecom passwords and changing the phone numbers of tens of thousands of American families in the pay phone system. After he was released from prison, he revised the financial statements of many companies and was arrested and imprisoned for another year.

However, Mitnick did not stop after his release, and later he successfully hacked into the computers of Nokia, Motorola, Shengyang and Fujitsu to steal important corporate data, and FBI counted the losses to these companies as high as 400 million US dollars.

After getting out of prison, he ran Mitnick Security Consulting (Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC), which helps test security strengths, weaknesses, and potential vulnerabilities, and is the chief hacker officer of KnowBe4, a security awareness training company.

CTOnews.com reported in April that he used 24 RTX 4090 graphics cards and 6 RTX 2080 graphics cards to build a supercomputer to crack passwords, which he will call "badass password cracker".

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