Kevin David Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick was a well-known former cyber thief and black hat computer hacker who was arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1995, and convicted of wire fraud and of breaking into the computer systems of Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems. He served five years in prison (four years of it pre-trial), 8 months of that in solitary confinement, and was released on January 21, 2000.