He broke into computer systems across the country, but says now that his crimes were not for money. “Why I was a hacker was (for) the intellectual curiosity, the pursuit of knowledge, the seduction of ...

Almost eight years after his arrest in North Carolina on charges related to a two-year computer hacking spree, notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick today is finally free to use computers and roam the ...

Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker ...