list of notable hackers

Here is a list of notable hacker groups.

• Anonymous, a group of hackers originating in 2003.
• LulzSec, a group of hackers originating and disbanding in 2011 that claimed to hack "for the lulz"Currently broken up.
• Chaos Computer Club, is based in Germany and other German-speaking countries and currently has over 9,000 members.
• Legion of Doom, a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000.
• Masters of Deception, initial membership grew from meetings on Loop-Around Test Lines that led to legendary collaborations to hack RBOC phone switches and the various minicomputers and mainframes used to administer the telephone network.
• w00w00, is currently one of the largest non-profit security teams in the world with more than 30 active participants.
• TESO, was a famous hacker group, which originated in Austria and quickly became international. It was active from 1998 to 2004, and during its peak around 2000, it was responsible for a significant share of the exploits on the bugtraq mailing list.
• L0pht, was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
• Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organisation founded in 1984 inLubbock, Texas.
• milw0rm is a group of "hacktivists" best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai.
• TeaMp0isoN is a group of Black-Hat Computer Hackers established in mid-2009
• Decocidio is an anonymous, autonomous collective of hacktivists which is part of Earth First!!, a radical environmental protest organisation, and adheres to Climate Justice Action
• Goatse Security (GoatSec) is a loose-knit, nine-person grey hat hacker group that specializes in uncovering security flaws.
• Global kos were a grey hat (leaning black hat) computer hacker group active from 1996 through 2000.
• globalHell was a group of hackers, composed of about 60 individuals. The group disbanded in 1999, when 12 members were prosecuted for computer intrusion and 30 for lesser offences.
• Hackweiser is an underground hacking group and hacking magazine founded in 1999.
• Honker Union is a group known for hacktivism, mainly present in Mainland China, whose members launched a series of attacks on websites in the United States, mostly government-related sites.
• Level Seven was a hacking group during the mid to late 90's. Eventually dispersing in early 2000 when nominal head 'vent' was raided by the FBI on February 25, 2000.
• NCPH is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province. While the group first gained notoriety after hacking 40% of the hacker association websites in China, their attacks grew in sophistication and notoriety through 2006 and received international media attention in early 2007

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