Kevin Mitnick is survived by his wife, Kimberly, who is expecting their first child.
He was receiving treatment at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after he was diagnosed with cancer more than a year ago.
Mitnick managed to cause millions of dollars in damage after hacking company computer systems, and before he was 30, he had already served prison time for his cyber crimes. He would go on to wreak havoc on the cyber world and managed to steal thousands of files of data including credit card numbers, and he was even able to get into the nation’s phone and cell networks, according to the
However, he was soon captured by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in 1995, with the help of Tsutomu Shimomura, a cybersecurity expert who had his computer hacked by Mitnick previously, the Post reported.
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