Most Daring Outlaw Hackers of 2013

Spanning a host of political ideologies, motivations, and geographic locations and using a range of tactics, these are the hackers who changed things this year.

Google has released a map of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that took place around the world this year, and there were a lot (especially from China) in 2013. Since this has been such a busy year for hackers, we've put together the list below of the most notorious e-criminals of the year. Some got caught up in the law while others continue to evade it; some had political reasons, others just wanted to chase that paper. What unites them is their disregard--for better or worse--of laws and regulations and their unimpeachable skills at getting computers to bend to their will.

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