“I was an old-school hacker, doing it for intellectual curiosity,” Mitnick told Wired magazine in a 2008 interview. Mitnick and federal prosecutors agreed to a plea deal in 1999 to seven criminal counts, including wire fraud and causing damage to computers. Mitnick published a memoir on his hacking career, “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker,” in 2011. Following his prison term, Mitnick became a white-hat hacker, using his expertise to legally help businesses track people trying to break into their systems. “I made some really stupid mistakes in the past as a younger man that I regret,” Mitnick told CNN in a 2005 interview.

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Persons: Kevin Mitnick, Matthew Broderick, Mitnick, “, ” Mitnick, ”, Stu Sjouwerman, ” “ Kevin, ” Sjouwerman, Kevin, Kimberley Organizations: CNN, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Digital Equipment Corporation, Wired Locations: KnowBe4, Las Vegas