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title: "Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Jail"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/antivirus-pioneer-john-mcafee-found-dead-in-spanish-jail-pszm4ssyw
source_url: https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/antivirus-pioneer-john-mcafee-found.html
type: article
source: "The Hacker News"
published: 2021-06-24T06:45:34.071Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["security"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 38
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Jail

**[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 2 min read · 38 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

John McAfee, 75, died by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona, Spain. He was due to be extradited to the U.S. to face federal criminal tax evasion charges. McAfee worked for NASA, Xerox, and Lockheed Martin before launching the world's first commercial antivirus software.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@jae** · 3 upvotes

> TL;DR McAfee was found dead by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona hours after it was reported that Spain's National Court approved his extradition to the US to face federal criminal tax evasion charges.

**@sadeq** · 2 upvotes

> I was thinking he will overdose by his drugs !
> miss you John :(

**@gaurav1411** · 1 upvotes

> But was it really a suicide?

**@emersondiasbr** · 0 upvotes

> Sad ending.

**@tsc197** · 0 upvotes

> A great documentary about his life : "Gringo :The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" (2016)

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