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class="infobox-title">Pranknet</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pranknet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Pranknet.jpg/220px-Pranknet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Pranknet.jpg/330px-Pranknet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Pranknet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="276" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Pranknet logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">2000<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founding location</th><td class="infobox-data">Ontario, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">2000–2011</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Membership</th><td class="infobox-data">100+</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Activities</th><td class="infobox-data">Telephone <a href="/wiki/Harassment" title="Harassment">harassment</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hoax" title="Hoax">hoaxing</a>, via <a href="/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)" title="Social engineering (security)">social engineering</a>; <a href="/wiki/DDoS_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="DDoS attack">DDoS attacks</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pranknet</b>, also known as <b>Prank University</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an anonymous <a href="/wiki/Prank_call" title="Prank call">prank calling</a> <a href="/wiki/Virtual_community" title="Virtual community">virtual community</a> that was involved in a string of malicious pranks and instances of telephone harassment, especially during 2009–2011. Their pranks were coordinated through an online chat room, and convinced others to cause damage to <a href="/wiki/Hotel" title="Hotel">hotels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fast_food_restaurant" class="mw-redirect" title="Fast food restaurant">fast food restaurants</a> of more than $60,000. The group was founded by a man who later referred to himself as "Dex1x1", later identified as a Canadian named Tariq Malik.<sup id="cite_ref-tsgtt_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgtt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-logcab_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-logcab-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-qsr_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qsr-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group has been linked to nearly 60 separate incidents.<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Posing as <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority figures</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Fire_alarm" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire alarm">fire alarm</a> company representatives and hotel front-desk/corporate managers, Pranknet participants called unsuspecting employees and customers in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and tricked them into damaging property, pulling fire alarms, setting off <a href="/wiki/Fire_sprinkler" title="Fire sprinkler">fire sprinklers</a>, breaking out windows, and humiliating acts such as disrobing and the consumption of human urine. Pranknet members could listen in real-time and discuss the progress together in a private <a href="/wiki/Chat_room" title="Chat room">chat room</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, a wave of the pranks across the United States prompted internal alerts by <a href="/wiki/Choice_Hotels" title="Choice Hotels">Choice Hotels</a>, as well as advisories by the Sheriff's office of <a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_Florida" title="Orange County, Florida">Orange County, Florida</a>, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-register_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-register-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time, law enforcement officials from a number of jurisdictions and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> began investigating the various incidents as well as the identity of "Dex".<sup id="cite_ref-qsr_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qsr-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cbc_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technology">Technology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pranknet initially operated through a chat room at Pranknet.org, and participants used <a href="/wiki/Skype" title="Skype">Skype</a> to make their calls. As of 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Skype used encryption and obfuscation of its communication services and provided an uncontrolled registration system for users without proof of identity, making it difficult to trace and identify users.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Skype began an internal investigation, Pranknet left Skype and briefly used <a href="/wiki/Paltalk" title="Paltalk">Paltalk</a> for its chats and calls. However, Paltalk banned Pranknet after a February 2009 <a href="/wiki/KFC" title="KFC">KFC</a> incident. After Pranknet users were banned from Paltalk, the company was subjected to multiple <a href="/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" title="Denial-of-service attack">DDoS</a> attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beginning in 2009, members chatted before, during, and after each prank via the chat system of Beyluxe Messenger, which is owned and operated in Romania, and thus outside of <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>. Audiences ranged from 40 to 200 people at any given time. </p><p>Pranks that created sufficient havoc were posted on <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Updates were also provided through a <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> account.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Pranknet_incidents">Notable Pranknet incidents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notable Pranknet incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2009, "Dex" and a member called "Slayer" called a <a href="/wiki/KFC" title="KFC">KFC</a> restaurant in <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester, New Hampshire</a>. Posing as a manager from the corporate office, he persuaded employees to douse the building with <a href="/wiki/Automatic_fire_suppression" title="Automatic fire suppression">fire suppression chemicals</a> and to then proceed outside, remove all of their clothing and urinate on each other. He claimed the chemicals were caustic and this would render them inert.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When "Dex" posted the audio to <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> he described it as "Epic KFC Prank Call (greatest ever)...dex successfully convinces the 3 female employees to undress fully nude outside and urinate on each other." Many months later "Dex", posing this time as an <a href="/wiki/Insurance_adjuster" class="mw-redirect" title="Insurance adjuster">insurance adjuster</a>, called the same KFC and had the victims describe their experiences while Pranknet members listened.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 10, "Dex" and a member called "DTA_Mike", posing as hotel front desk employees, called two separate guests at the <a href="/wiki/Best_Western" title="Best Western">Best Western</a> hotel in <a href="/wiki/Shillington,_Pennsylvania" title="Shillington, Pennsylvania">Shillington, Pennsylvania</a>. Using the pretense of a ruptured gas line, the caller persuaded each guest to break a window and then throw the television out. "Dex" and his friend repeated the same stunt on February 19 with a Best Western in <a href="/wiki/Santee,_California" title="Santee, California">Santee, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 30, a Pranknet member called "Rollin in the A" called Prejean's Restaurant in <a href="/wiki/Lafayette,_Louisiana" title="Lafayette, Louisiana">Lafayette, Louisiana</a> posing as an official from the health department. This target was selected because the restaurant provided <a href="/wiki/Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">live video streaming</a> of its dining area on their own website. The victim at this restaurant was told that Prejean's pork was tainted with the <a href="/wiki/Swine_flu" class="mw-redirect" title="Swine flu">swine flu</a>. "Rollin in the A" also told the manager to close the restaurant immediately and tell the customers (75 of them) that they may have eaten tainted food.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 27, "Dex" called a <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Inn" class="mw-redirect" title="Hampton Inn">Hampton Inn</a> in <a href="/wiki/York,_Nebraska" title="York, Nebraska">York, Nebraska</a>, and tricked an employee into setting off the <a href="/wiki/Fire_alarm" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire alarm">fire alarm</a>. As guests made their way to the lobby, a second call was placed to the front desk. "Dex" claimed that, to avoid alleged fines, the <a href="/wiki/Fire_department" title="Fire department">fire department</a> should not be called. Instead, the caller gave various bogus instructions to turn the alarm off, including going to a website that only displayed <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a>. The next suggestion from the caller was to break the front windows of the hotel. A truck driver staying at the hotel volunteered, and under direction from "Dex", the man drove his <a href="/wiki/Semi-trailer_truck" title="Semi-trailer truck">semi-trailer truck</a> into the front door.<sup id="cite_ref-YorkNewsTimes_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YorkNewsTimes-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that night, "Dex" <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">tweeted</a>: "I just pulled off the most epic prank. I had a hotel guest back his truck into the hotel front window (in the lobby), and break the window." The post was deleted in late July.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 6, 2009, a prank was made on a <a href="/wiki/Holiday_Inn_Express" title="Holiday Inn Express">Holiday Inn Express</a> hotel in <a href="/wiki/Conway,_Arkansas" title="Conway, Arkansas">Conway, Arkansas</a>. The caller posed as a representative from the company that installed the hotel's <a href="/wiki/Fire_sprinkler" title="Fire sprinkler">fire sprinkler</a> and claimed the system needed to be reset by pulling the <a href="/wiki/Fire_alarm" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire alarm">fire alarm</a>. Once the alarm was turned on, the clerk was told that the sprinklers would activate unless windows were broken.<sup id="cite_ref-katv_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-katv-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same day, the pranksters called a <a href="/wiki/Comfort_Suites" class="mw-redirect" title="Comfort Suites">Comfort Suites</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gadsden,_Alabama" title="Gadsden, Alabama">Gadsden, Alabama</a>, persuading a clerk to pull a fire alarm; sprinklers were subsequently activated, causing water damage.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July, a Pranknet member called a <a href="/wiki/Hilton_Hotels" class="mw-redirect" title="Hilton Hotels">Hilton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando, Florida</a>, and, claiming there was a <a href="/wiki/Gas_leak" title="Gas leak">gas leak</a>, convinced a family staying there to break windows with the lid for the toilet tank, destroy a mirror, bash in a wall using a lamp, and throw their mattress out the window.<sup id="cite_ref-orlando_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-orlando-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The incident cost $5,000 in damages.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in July, a Pranknet caller informed two hotel guests that deadly spiders were about to infest their room. The caller was able to manipulate the couple into breaking their window with the tank lid from their toilet.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 5, Pranknet members Powell and Markle called an <a href="/wiki/Arby%27s" title="Arby's">Arby's</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baytown,_Texas" title="Baytown, Texas">Baytown, Texas</a> (where Powell lives) and talked a worker there into triggering the fire suppression system, causing an estimated $4,600 in damages. Powell failed in his attempts to get any windows broken.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Powell was later arrested and charged with criminal mischief for the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-TGSxx_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TGSxx-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 20, Markle tricked a desk clerk at the <a href="/wiki/Homewood_Suites_by_Hilton" title="Homewood Suites by Hilton">Homewood Suites</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington, Kentucky</a>, into drinking another person's <a href="/wiki/Urine" title="Urine">urine</a>. The prank started with a call to a guest. The guest was told it was the front desk calling and that a prior guest had tested positive for <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_C" title="Hepatitis C">Hepatitis C</a>. The guest was then told there was a doctor on site and a simple <a href="/wiki/Urine_test" title="Urine test">urine test</a> could determine if the guest was infected. The urine was to be brought to the front desk in a simple drinking glass. Switching roles, Markle then called the front desk alleging to be an employee of <a href="/wiki/Martinelli%27s" title="Martinelli's">Martinelli's Cider</a>. He told the clerk that a representative from the company would like to come downstairs with a sample of their new drink. The guest from the previous call then arrived and handed the clerk his urine. Markle then coaxed the woman to try it. He asked how it tasted. "Horrible", she said. "That does not taste like cider. I'm not going to take another sip, that's horrible." Markle replied: "Well, I need to inform you of something, ma'am. I want you to understand that you just drank that man's urine."<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its investigation,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Why was a police department in Lufkin, Texas, investigating an incident that took place in Kentucky? (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> the cyber crimes division of the police department of <a href="/wiki/Lufkin,_Texas" title="Lufkin, Texas">Lufkin, Texas</a>, requested a <a href="/wiki/Subpoena" title="Subpoena">subpoena</a> for Markle's Skype activities.<sup id="cite_ref-Lufkin2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lufkin2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The police report classifies the Lexington incident as first-degree wanton <a href="/wiki/Endangerment" title="Endangerment">endangerment</a>, a Class D <a href="/wiki/Felony" title="Felony">felony</a> in Kentucky.<sup id="cite_ref-LexingtonHeraldLeader_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LexingtonHeraldLeader-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Markle was subsequently sentenced to a <a href="/wiki/Shock_incarceration" class="mw-redirect" title="Shock incarceration">shock incarceration</a> term of six months.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, an employee at a Holiday Inn Express was persuaded by a Pranknet caller to set off a fire alarm, break windows, and set off sprinklers which flooded the building. Damages were estimated at $50,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Telegraph_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telegraph-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Smoking_Gun" title="The Smoking Gun">The Smoking Gun</a> reported that Pranknet leader "Dex" was responsible for an October 21 hoax in which he phoned <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> reporter <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Moreau" title="Elizabeth Moreau">Elizabeth Moreau</a>, tricking her into breaking windows in her room at the Hilton Garden Inn in <a href="/wiki/Gainesville,_Florida" title="Gainesville, Florida">Gainesville, Florida</a>. He then initiated a conference call with a front desk employee at the hotel, where he then claimed he was Moreau's boyfriend and that the damage was a result of them fighting, as well as making a number of vulgar statements.<sup id="cite_ref-tsgoct25_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgoct25-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result of the hoax, a Gainesville Police detective was assigned to the case.<sup id="cite_ref-tsgoct25_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgoct25-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2010, an elderly man staying at a <a href="/wiki/Motel_6" title="Motel 6">Motel 6</a> in <a href="/wiki/Spartanburg,_South_Carolina" title="Spartanburg, South Carolina">Spartanburg, South Carolina</a>, was tricked by a Pranknet member posing as a hotel administrator into destroying his television set and smashing mirrors in his room with a wrench to destroy hidden cameras supposedly left by a previous guest.<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The man, told that there was a "midget" trapped in an adjoining room, was then tricked into destroying a sheetrock wall behind his room door, almost making his way through to the next room.<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As one of the prankster's returned calls was heard by police and other guests who received prank calls soon called the front desk, the hotel did not hold the man accountable for the damages, but did ask him to leave.<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pranksters called back on March 11, 2011, persuading a guest to "disable" a <a href="/wiki/Sprinkler_head" class="mw-redirect" title="Sprinkler head">sprinkler head</a> by smashing it with a toilet lid to prevent a 'toxic gas' from entering the room.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to TSG, "Motel 6 is a preferred target because Pranknet members can call directly into rooms without having to know a guest's name"<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of November 1, 2011, this is no longer possible. After police arrived to answer a 911 call placed by the motel manager, they declined to press charges against the victim but noted that other similar phone calls had been received at the motel.<sup id="cite_ref-elderlyman_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elderlyman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 5, 2010, two Pranknet members identified by The Smoking Gun collaborated to humiliate an Iraq War veteran, 22, at a Motel 6 in Amarillo, Texas. One, posing as the hotel receptionist, informed him that the prior occupant of his room had been diagnosed with "<a href="/wiki/H1N1" class="mw-redirect" title="H1N1">H1N1</a> flu virus", and transferred him to the other, posing as a physician, who over the course of half an hour directed him to induce vomiting, then to consume some of his own urine to "kill the incubation period", and finally to collect a <a href="/wiki/Stool_sample" class="mw-redirect" title="Stool sample">stool sample</a> in a pillowcase, which he was to bring to the front desk. A prankster then called the hotel's actual front desk, identifying himself by the guest's full name and claiming to be so angry with the service that he would leave a pillowcase full of feces at the front desk. The receptionist locked the door and called police, so the veteran returned to his room, where his conversation with police officers the receptionist had summoned became audible to the pranksters' followers. They finished by calling other visitors at the hotel describing aspects of the prank until the police were called again half an hour later. With voice electronically altered and posing as the mother of a boy making prank calls, one of the pranksters managed to convince police to put the victim back on the phone, who unknowingly recounted his experience to the pranksters.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 9, 2011, a Holiday Inn in <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a>, was targeted. Taking advantage of the ability to call guests of the hotel directly, the prankster pretended to be a Fire Department employee reading instructions from a computer checklist to prevent an explosion from a gas leak. These instructions included to "break the red glass vial in the sprinkler", leading to $115,000 in water damage in seven guest rooms and a conference room. The guest was also persuaded to rip a mirror from his wall to find the (non-existent) shutoff valve.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Phone_and_computer_hijacking">Phone and computer hijacking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Phone and computer hijacking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning in July 2009, "Dex" began hijacking <a href="/wiki/Phone_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Phone number">phone numbers</a> of U.S. businesses and had them forwarded to his Skype account. Claiming to be an authority from a particular business, he calls a phone company and claims they have no dial tone. He then requests that all calls be forwarded to the number he provides.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 7, "Dex" took over incoming calls of the Olympic Game Farm in <a href="/wiki/Port_Angeles,_Washington" title="Port Angeles, Washington">Port Angeles, Washington</a>, making obscene sexual comments to customers who called. On July 11, he repeated the stunt with the Fun 4 All amusement park in <a href="/wiki/Chula_Vista,_California" title="Chula Vista, California">Chula Vista, California</a>. On July 13 he took over incoming calls to a Best Western in <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a> for over 12 hours. In one interaction, a woman called to find out if her husband had arrived and was told first that he had been in an accident, and then that he was having sex with a man in his room and did not wish to be disturbed. On July 15, "Dex" controlled incoming calls to a <a href="/wiki/Hilton_Garden_Inn" title="Hilton Garden Inn">Hilton Garden Inn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma" title="Tulsa, Oklahoma">Tulsa, Oklahoma</a>. He told people inquiring about a shuttle to take a cab and they'd be reimbursed. He told some callers the hotel had a swine flu outbreak and told other callers the hotel was in the midst of a <a href="/wiki/Hostage_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Hostage crisis">hostage situation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Talking hotel front desk clerks through a series of steps using <a href="/wiki/TeamViewer" title="TeamViewer">TeamViewer</a>, "Dex" has posed as a corporate headquarters <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">IT</a> supervisor and taken remote control of hotel computers.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Craigslist_abuse">Craigslist abuse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Craigslist abuse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pranknet members frequently placed <a href="/wiki/Craigslist" title="Craigslist">Craigslist</a> ads offering free tickets or items. Inquirers were bombarded with obscene sexual rants and racial epithets. A 12-year-old girl called about a free trampoline, and "Dex" told her not to get pregnant by a black man because "they have <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>". Markle frequently called women who were selling household items on the site, and after getting the home addresses of victims, told them he was on his way over to rape them and kill their children.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Smoking_Gun_investigation">Smoking Gun investigation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Smoking Gun investigation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Dex" and other Pranknet members had regularly taunted victims and others, saying they were untraceable.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview with <a href="/wiki/The_Smoking_Gun" title="The Smoking Gun">The Smoking Gun</a> on June 17, 2009, "Dex" exhibited no worries about being tracked down or caught. In a July co-interview with Markle, he boasted: "It's too difficult to find me. I'm a ghost on the Internet. I do pretty much everything I can to keep anything out of my computer that would lead it back to my actual computer. I'm not a stupid individual, like I said."<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2009, The Smoking Gun launched an investigation that lasted nearly two months and included travel to <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Ontario" title="Windsor, Ontario">Windsor, Ontario</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Stakeout" class="mw-redirect" title="Stakeout">stakeout</a> outside Malik's mother's home. Smoking Gun editor <a href="/wiki/William_Bastone" title="William Bastone">William Bastone</a> emailed "Dex", and during a Skype interview provided <a href="/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URLs</a> on the Smoking Gun website. The URLs were unique; when Malik viewed them, it revealed his <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP address</a> and location.<sup id="cite_ref-VancouverSun_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VancouverSun-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sguninvestigation_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sguninvestigation-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The names, biographies and locations of Pranknet's founder "Dex" and a number of prolific members, and their other findings, were published on their website and provided to the FBI in August 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-YorkNewsTimes_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YorkNewsTimes-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2016 article by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> noted Bastone's outing of Pranknet's members and also referred to Pranknet as "long gone".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC2016_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC2016-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members">Members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pranknet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Tyler Markle" redirects here. For the nephew of the Duchess of Sussex, see <a href="/wiki/Family_of_Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex#Tyler_Dooley" title="Family of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex">Family of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex § Tyler Dooley</a>.</div> <p>According to crime reporting website The Smoking Gun, key members included: </p> <ul><li>Tariq Malik, also known as Pranknet leader "Dex" (a tribute to the character <a href="/wiki/Dexter_Morgan" title="Dexter Morgan">Dexter Morgan</a>, a fictional <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview with <i>The Globe and Mail</i>, "Dex" denied he was Malik (but confirmed he is Canadian).<sup id="cite_ref-Globe_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Globe-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>William Marquis, Pranknet's "second in command".<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Known as Hempster, Marquis was previously convicted in 2004 for <a href="/wiki/Drunk_driving" title="Drunk driving">drunk driving</a> and in 2005 for <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">marijuana</a> production.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CBC_News" title="CBC News">CBC News</a> attempted to interview Marquis regarding the Pranknet allegations. However, he did not answer his door.<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>James "Tyler" Markle, one of the group's most prolific callers. Markle was already a <a href="/wiki/Person_of_interest" title="Person of interest">person of interest</a> in a Lufkin Police investigation involving a phone call to a local <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Lufkin1_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lufkin1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was arrested for this subsequently.<sup id="cite_ref-markle001_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-markle001-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Smoking Gun had based the claim upon information from old MySpace and Facebook pages, and people from the area who identified Markle in photos.<sup id="cite_ref-KTRE_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KTRE-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Smoking Gun also published official documents showing that Markle pleaded guilty to aggravated <a href="/wiki/Sexual_assault" title="Sexual assault">sexual assault</a> of a child in 2005, serving two years in a juvenile detention facility for having sex with a 5-year-old girl and then threatening to kill her if she told anyone about the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG12_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG12-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an interview with <i>The Lufkin Daily News</i>, Markle denied that the person described on TSG was him, claiming instead it was another person called the Samoan Prankster.<sup id="cite_ref-Lufkin1_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lufkin1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was charged with felonies in two separate states: for making a felony terroristic threat in the Lufkin McDonald's case and for terrorizing and criminal damage (both felonies) in a separate incident involving a Wendy's restaurant in <a href="/wiki/Gretna,_Louisiana" title="Gretna, Louisiana">Gretna, Louisiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-smokingG_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smokingG-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later extradited to Louisiana as a result of the charges filed in the Gretna incident.<sup id="cite_ref-marklexxx_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marklexxx-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2010, Markle was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Texas for the prank call to the Lufkin McDonald's.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1202_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1202-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Shawn Powell, previously imprisoned for <a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse">indecency with a minor</a> (for taking nude photos of an 8-year-old female relative), a felony that put him in custody for 13 months. He specialized in racist and threatening calls.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was charged with <a href="/wiki/Criminal_mischief" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal mischief">criminal mischief</a> for his part in a hoax call to the Baytown Arby's restaurant, resulting in the fire suppression system being activated and resulting in $1,350 worth of damage.<sup id="cite_ref-TGSxx_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TGSxx-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>LeeAnn Jordan, who had used her <a href="/wiki/PayPal" title="PayPal">PayPal</a> account to receive international money transfers and to pay for Paltalk.<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>A former member, Jericho Batsford, left the group in 2009 after the incident in <a href="/wiki/Conway,_Arkansas" title="Conway, Arkansas">Conway, Arkansas</a>, and contacted local FBI agents.<sup id="cite_ref-logcab_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-logcab-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She told them she knew Dex's identity to be that of Malik<sup id="cite_ref-logcab_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-logcab-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that he was responsible for many incidents.<sup id="cite_ref-Foxnews_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foxnews-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response to her defection, Pranknet members have constantly harassed her home and her workplace via Skype and Beyluxe. Malik told members to be patient, that she would not answer the phone and let them get to her, and to instead "get her later on down the road, when she least expects it."<sup id="cite_ref-TSG1_6-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSG1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Batsford had participated in some phone pranks, but left when she witnessed members encouraging children to make bomb threats.<sup id="cite_ref-logcab_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-logcab-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Officials in at least four U.S. States and six U.S. cities stated that they were considering charges against "Dex" and his possible <a href="/wiki/Extradition" title="Extradition">extradition</a> from <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> to face trial.<sup id="cite_ref-Globe_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Globe-26"><span 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</tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Aurora" title="Operation Aurora">Operation Aurora</a> (publication of 2009 events)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2010_Australian_cyberattacks" title="February 2010 Australian cyberattacks">Australian cyberattacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games" title="Operation Olympic Games">Operation Olympic Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Network" title="Shadow Network">Operation ShadowNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Payback" title="Operation Payback">Operation Payback</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Canadian_government_hackings" title="2011 Canadian government hackings">Canadian government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DigiNotar" title="DigiNotar">DigiNotar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DNSChanger" title="DNSChanger">DNSChanger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HBGary" title="HBGary">HBGary Federal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_AntiSec" title="Operation AntiSec">Operation AntiSec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage" title="2011 PlayStation Network outage">PlayStation network outage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RSA_SecurID#March_2011_system_compromise" title="RSA SecurID">RSA SecurID compromise</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2012</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack" title="2012 LinkedIn hack">LinkedIn hack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratfor_email_leak" title="Stratfor email leak">Stratfor email leak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_High_Roller" title="Operation High Roller">Operation High Roller</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_South_Korea_cyberattack" title="2013 South Korea cyberattack">South Korea cyberattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snapchat#December_2013_hack" title="Snapchat">Snapchat hack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_25_cyber_terror" class="mw-redirect" title="June 25 cyber terror">Cyberterrorism attack of June 25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches#August_2013:_breach" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! data breaches">2013 Yahoo! data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Singapore_cyberattacks" title="2013 Singapore cyberattacks">Singapore cyberattacks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthem_medical_data_breach" title="Anthem medical data breach">Anthem medical data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tovar" title="Operation Tovar">Operation Tovar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak" title="2014 celebrity nude photo leak">2014 celebrity nude photo leak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_JPMorgan_Chase_data_breach" title="2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach">2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Sony_Pictures_hack" title="2014 Sony Pictures hack">2014 Sony Pictures hack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Russian_hacker_password_theft" title="2014 Russian hacker password theft">Russian hacker password theft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches#Late_2014:_breach" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! data breaches">2014 Yahoo! data breach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach" title="Office of Personnel Management data breach">Office of Personnel Management data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HackingTeam#2015_data_breach" title="HackingTeam">HackingTeam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach" title="Ashley Madison data breach">Ashley Madison data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VTech#2015_data_breach" title="VTech">VTech data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Ukraine_power_grid_hack" title="2015 Ukraine power grid hack">Ukrainian Power Grid Cyberattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_SWIFT_banking_hack" title="2015–2016 SWIFT banking hack">SWIFT banking hack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery" title="Bangladesh Bank robbery">Bangladesh Bank robbery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Presbyterian_Medical_Center#Ransomware" title="Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center">Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center ransomware incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commission_on_Elections_data_breach" title="Commission on Elections data breach">Commission on Elections data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_cyber_attacks" title="Democratic National Committee cyber attacks">Democratic National Committee cyber attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_airports_hackings" title="Vietnamese airports hackings">Vietnam Airport Hacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee_cyber_attacks" title="Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee cyber attacks">DCCC cyber attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Indian_Banks_data_breach" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Indian Banks data breach">Indian Bank data breaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surkov_leaks" title="Surkov leaks">Surkov leaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DDoS_attacks_on_Dyn" title="DDoS attacks on Dyn">Dyn cyberattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections">Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Bitfinex_hack" title="2016 Bitfinex hack">2016 Bitfinex hack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SHA1#SHAttered_–_first_public_collision" class="mw-redirect" title="SHA1">SHAttered</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Macron_e-mail_leaks" title="2017 Macron e-mail leaks">2017 Macron e-mail leaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack" title="WannaCry ransomware attack">WannaCry ransomware attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Westminster_data_breach" title="2017 Westminster data breach">Westminster data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petya_(malware_family)" title="Petya (malware family)">Petya and NotPetya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_Ukraine_ransomware_attacks" title="2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks">2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach" title="2017 Equifax data breach">Equifax data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deloitte#E-mail_hack" title="Deloitte">Deloitte breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disqus#October_2017_security_breach" title="Disqus">Disqus breach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trustico#DigiCert_and_Trustico_spat,_2018" title="Trustico">Trustico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_government_ransomware_attack" title="Atlanta government ransomware attack">Atlanta cyberattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_SingHealth_data_breach" title="2018 SingHealth data breach">SingHealth data breach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019_cyberattacks_on_Sri_Lanka" title="2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka cyberattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Baltimore_ransomware_attack" title="2019 Baltimore ransomware attack">Baltimore ransomware attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Bulgarian_revenue_agency_hack" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack">Bulgarian revenue agency hack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WhatsApp_snooping_scandal" title="WhatsApp snooping scandal">WhatsApp snooping scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_incident" title="Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident">Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hacktivism" title="Hacktivism">Hacktivism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)" title="Anonymous (hacker group)">Anonymous</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_events_associated_with_Anonymous" title="Timeline of events associated with Anonymous">associated events</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CyberBerkut" title="CyberBerkut">CyberBerkut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America" title="Gay Nigger Association of America">GNAA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goatse_Security" title="Goatse Security">Goatse Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lizard_Squad" title="Lizard Squad">Lizard Squad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LulzRaft" title="LulzRaft">LulzRaft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LulzSec" title="LulzSec">LulzSec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Dyn_cyberattack#Perpetrators" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Dyn cyberattack">New World Hackers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NullCrew" title="NullCrew">NullCrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OurMine" title="OurMine">OurMine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PayPal_14" title="PayPal 14">PayPal 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RedHack" title="RedHack">RedHack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teamp0ison" title="Teamp0ison">Teamp0ison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Overlord_(hacker_group)" title="The Dark Overlord (hacker group)"> TDO </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UGNazi" title="UGNazi">UGNazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Cyber_Alliance" title="Ukrainian Cyber Alliance">Ukrainian Cyber Alliance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat" title="Advanced persistent threat">Advanced<br />persistent threats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Black_Hat_Hackers" title="Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers">Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_121" title="Bureau 121">Bureau 121</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charming_Kitten" title="Charming Kitten">Charming Kitten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cozy_Bear" title="Cozy Bear">Cozy Bear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Basin" title="Dark Basin">Dark Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DarkMatter_Group" title="DarkMatter Group">DarkMatter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elfin_Team" title="Elfin Team">Elfin Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equation_Group" title="Equation Group">Equation Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fancy_Bear" title="Fancy Bear">Fancy Bear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuxnet#History" title="Stuxnet">GOSSIPGIRL</a> (confederation)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guccifer_2.0" title="Guccifer 2.0">Guccifer 2.0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hacking_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="Hacking Team">Hacking Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helix_Kitten" title="Helix Kitten">Helix Kitten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Cyber_Army" title="Iranian Cyber Army">Iranian Cyber Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazarus_Group" title="Lazarus Group">Lazarus Group</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lazarus_Group#BlueNorOff" title="Lazarus Group">BlueNorOff</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Lazarus_Group#AndAriel" title="Lazarus Group">AndAriel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NSO_Group" title="NSO Group">NSO Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numbered_Panda" title="Numbered Panda">Numbered Panda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398" title="PLA Unit 61398">PLA Unit 61398</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PLA_Unit_61486" title="PLA Unit 61486">PLA Unit 61486</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PLATINUM_(cybercrime_group)" title="PLATINUM (cybercrime group)">PLATINUM</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Pranknet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Apollo" title="Red Apollo">Red Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocket_Kitten" title="Rocket Kitten">Rocket Kitten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stealth_Falcon" title="Stealth Falcon">Stealth Falcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Electronic_Army" title="Syrian Electronic Army">Syrian Electronic Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations" title="Tailored Access Operations">Tailored Access Operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers" title="The Shadow Brokers">The Shadow Brokers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XDedic" title="XDedic">xDedic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen_Cyber_Army" title="Yemen Cyber Army">Yemen Cyber Army</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hacker" title="Hacker">Individuals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ryan_Ackroyd" title="Ryan Ackroyd">Ryan Ackroyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Al-Bassam" title="Mustafa Al-Bassam">Mustafa Al-Bassam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hotz" title="George Hotz">George Hotz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guccifer" title="Guccifer">Guccifer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_Gunton" title="Elliott Gunton">Elliott Gunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond" title="Jeremy Hammond">Jeremy Hammond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kristoffer_von_Hassel" title="Kristoffer von Hassel">Kristoffer von Hassel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junaid_Hussain" title="Junaid Hussain">Junaid Hussain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLT_(hacktivist)" title="MLT (hacktivist)">MLT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector_Monsegur" title="Hector Monsegur">Sabu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Seleznev" title="Roman Seleznev">Track2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topiary_(hacktivist)" title="Topiary (hacktivist)">Topiary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)" title="The Jester (hacktivist)">The Jester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major <a href="/wiki/Vulnerability_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vulnerability (computing)">vulnerabilities</a><br />publicly <a href="/wiki/Full_disclosure_(computer_security)" title="Full disclosure (computer security)">disclosed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evercookie" title="Evercookie">Evercookie</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISeeYou" title="ISeeYou">iSeeYou</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heartbleed" title="Heartbleed"> Heartbleed</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)" title="Shellshock (software bug)">Shellshock</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/POODLE" title="POODLE">POODLE</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rootpipe" title="Rootpipe">Rootpipe</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Row_hammer" title="Row hammer">Row hammer</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signaling_System_No._7#Protocol_security_vulnerabilities" class="mw-redirect" title="Signaling System No. 7">SS7 vulnerabilities</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WinShock" title="WinShock">WinShock</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JASBUG" title="JASBUG">JASBUG</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)" title="Stagefright (bug)">Stagefright</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DROWN_attack" title="DROWN attack">DROWN</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badlock" title="Badlock">Badlock</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirty_COW" title="Dirty COW">Dirty COW</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloudbleed" title="Cloudbleed">Cloudbleed</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadcom_Corporation#soc-wifi-vulns" title="Broadcom Corporation">Broadcom Wi-Fi</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EternalBlue" title="EternalBlue">EternalBlue</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DoublePulsar" title="DoublePulsar">DoublePulsar</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology#Silent_Bob_is_Silent" title="Intel Active Management Technology">Silent Bob is Silent</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/KRACK" title="KRACK">KRACK</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ROCA_vulnerability" title="ROCA vulnerability">ROCA vulnerability</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BlueBorne_(security_vulnerability)" title="BlueBorne (security vulnerability)">BlueBorne</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)" title="Meltdown (security vulnerability)">Meltdown</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)" title="Spectre (security vulnerability)">Spectre</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EFAIL" title="EFAIL">EFAIL</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exactis" title="Exactis">Exactis</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speculative_Store_Bypass" title="Speculative Store Bypass">Speculative Store Bypass</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore" title="Lazy FP state restore">Lazy FP state restore</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TLBleed" title="TLBleed">TLBleed</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SigSpoof" title="SigSpoof">SigSpoof</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreshadow" title="Foreshadow">Foreshadow</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#Dragonblood_attack" title="Wi-Fi Protected Access">Dragonblood</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling" title="Microarchitectural Data Sampling">Microarchitectural Data Sampling</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BlueKeep" title="BlueKeep">BlueKeep</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kr00k" title="Kr00k">Kr00k</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Malware" title="Malware">Malware</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ransomware#Bad_Rabbit" title="Ransomware">Bad Rabbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BlackEnergy#BlackEnergy_2_(BE2)" title="BlackEnergy"> Black Energy 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SpyEye" title="SpyEye">SpyEye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuxnet" title="Stuxnet">Stuxnet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coreflood" title="Coreflood">Coreflood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alureon" title="Alureon">Alureon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duqu" title="Duqu">Duqu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelihos_botnet" title="Kelihos botnet">Kelihos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metulji_botnet" title="Metulji botnet">Metulji botnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stars_virus" title="Stars virus">Stars</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2012</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carna_botnet" title="Carna botnet">Carna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dexter_(malware)" title="Dexter (malware)">Dexter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FBI_MoneyPak_Ransomware" title="FBI MoneyPak Ransomware">FBI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flame_(malware)" title="Flame (malware)">Flame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahdi_(malware)" title="Mahdi (malware)">Mahdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_October_(malware)" title="Red October (malware)">Red October</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamoon" title="Shamoon">Shamoon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CryptoLocker" title="CryptoLocker">CryptoLocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_South_Korea_cyberattack" title="2013 South Korea cyberattack">DarkSeoul</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brambul" title="Brambul">Brambul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BlackEnergy#BlackEnergy_3_(BE3)" title="BlackEnergy"> Black Energy 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbanak" title="Carbanak">Carbanak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Careto_(malware)" title="Careto (malware)">Careto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DarkHotel" title="DarkHotel">DarkHotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duqu_2.0" title="Duqu 2.0">Duqu 2.0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FinFisher" title="FinFisher">FinFisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gameover_ZeuS" title="Gameover ZeuS">Gameover ZeuS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regin_(malware)" title="Regin (malware)">Regin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dridex" title="Dridex">Dridex</a></li> 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