Kevin Mitnick

Fact-check note: Mitnick broke into corporate computer and telephone systems, became a fugitive, was arrested February 15, 1995, pleaded guilty to federal charges, and later worked as a security consultant and author. “The world’s most wanted hacker” is a media label, not a formal worldwide designation. The suggestion that he hacked the FBI itself is not supported by the standard accounts; he evaded investigators while accessing private networks. His claim that curiosity rather than profit motivated him reflects his own later telling, and the dialogue is dramatized. Britannica biography · Associated Press obituary