Jonathan James had a gift of programming.During his time,he was regarded as one of the most dangerous
hackers in the united states and in the world at large.Born in December 12,1983 in Pinecrest,South Florida,Jonathan at the age of 15years hacked NASA and caused a 21-day shutdown of their computers by using a simple pentium computer.Jonathan used an online name called c0mrade.He stole documents valued around $1.7million as reported by NASA.
Between August 23 - October 27,1999,Jonathan went on a hacking spree.He hacked various systems including those of Bellsouth, Miami-Dade school system,Defense Threat Reduction Agency(a branch of United States Department of Defence),NASA etc.He was arrested in his home January 26,2000 by NASA and Department Of Defence agents and Pinecrest Police.Upon interrogation,Jonathan revealed he installed an unauthorized backdoor in one of the servers in Dulles,VA which he used to install a sniffer that gave him access to intercept over 4000 by Defense Threat Reduction Agency's employees.He also revealed he had obtained source codes belonging to the International space station controlling life sustaining elements.
Due to his age ,he could not be thrown into jail but rather faced a house arrest and ban on using computers.Jonathan suffered from a horrible depression and therefore shot himself death in his bathroom.
