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5. Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce

In 1996, Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce very nearly kickstarted World War III. The duo, using the handles Kuji and Datastream Cowboy, respectively, hacked into a Korean base and began to dump the lot of Korean Atomic Research Institute’s database onto a United States Air Force system. At first, the USAF was terrified that these two jokers had hacked into a North Korean database. Thankfully, they were just poking around in a South Korean system, which is still bad, but not quite “act of war” bad.

Hackers Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce
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