The 10 Most Destructive Hacker Attacks In The Past 25 Years

From a computer virus named for a stripper to swarming botnet attacks on the Pentagon and Microsoft, here are the 10 most infamous hacks, worms, and DDoS takedowns in the last 25 years.
10. June, 1990: Kevin Poulsen Vs. KISS-FM
9. February 2002: Adrian Lamo Vs. The New York Times
8. January 2008: Anonymous Vs. Scientology
7. February, 2000: Mafiaboy Vs. Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Dell, & Amazon
6. November 2008: Unknown Vs. Microsoft Windows (& the World)
5. August, 1999: Jonathan James Vs. U.S. Department of Defense
4. August, 2009: Russia Vs. Georgian blogger “Cyxymu”
3. March 1999: David L. Smith Vs. Microsoft Word & Excel
2. July, 2009: Unknown Vs. United States & South Korea
1. November, 1988: Robert Tappan Morris Vs. The World

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