Milw0rm

Milw0rm
Formation1998
Membership
JF, Keystroke, ExtreemUK, savec0re, and VeNoMouS

Milw0rm is a group of hacktivists[1] best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, the primary nuclear research facility of India, on June 3, 1998.[2] The group conducted hacks for political reasons,[3] including the largest mass hack up to that time, inserting an anti-nuclear weapons agenda and peace message on its hacked websites.[4][5] The group's logo featured the slogan "Putting the power back in the hands of the people."[6]

The BARC attack generated heated debate on the security of information in a world prevalent with countries developing nuclear weapons and the information necessary to do so, the ethics of "hacker activists" or "hacktivists," and the importance of advanced security measures in a modern world filled with people willing and able to break into insecure international websites.

The exploit site milw0rm.com and str0ke are unaffiliated with the milw0rm hacker group.

  1. ^ "'Hacktivists' of All Persuasions Take Their Struggle to the Web". New York Times. October 31, 1998. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
  2. ^ Milworm Bites BARC Archived 2013-05-18 at the Wayback Machine outlookindia.com. Retrieved 30 December 2012
  3. ^ Margolis, Michael; David Resnick (2000). Politics As Usual. Sage Publications. p. 195. ISBN 0-7619-1330-0.
  4. ^ Wall, David; William L. Simon (2001). Crime and the Internet. London: Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 0-415-24429-3.
  5. ^ Himma, Kenneth Einar (2006). Internet security. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0-7637-3536-1.
  6. ^ "E-Guerrillas in the mist". Ottawa Citizen. October 27, 1998. Archived from the original on July 30, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.