--- title: The Life of Kevin Mitnick: The World’s Most Famous Hacker description: Kevin Mitnick was born on the 6th of August, 1963 in Van Nuys, California. Mitnick’s first hack was in 1979 when he broke into a computer at the University of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-life-of-kevin-mitnick-the-world-s-most-famous-hacker-kk4dbjmkk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Life of Kevin Mitnick: The World’s Most Famous Hacker | daily.dev og:description: Kevin Mitnick was born on the 6th of August, 1963 in Van Nuys, California. Mitnick’s first hack was in 1979 when he broke into a computer at the University of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-life-of-kevin-mitnick-the-world-s-most-famous-hacker-kk4dbjmkk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kk4DBJMkk.png og:image:alt: The Life of Kevin Mitnick: The World’s Most Famous Hacker og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Life of Kevin Mitnick: The World’s Most Famous Hacker **[Codemotion](https://daily.dev/sources/codemotion)** · 4 min read · 41 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Kevin Mitnick was born on the 6th of August, 1963 in Van Nuys, California. Mitnick’s first hack was in 1979 when he broke into a computer at the University of Southern California (USC) Mitnick used a software vulnerability to gain access and continue his subterfuge in private. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@varactor** · 4 upvotes > There is a good movie about his life if my memory serves me well the movie's name was "Takedown" - I'm not a movie fan, but this one is worth watching if you're into IT or Software Development. > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/ **@pump1it** · 3 upvotes > RIP =((( Thank you for the great books that change the developers' life !) **@pablodevto** · 3 upvotes > I liked the story of Kevin Mitnick I recommend watching the movie > https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackdown **@dragonsong3k** · 2 upvotes > One my all time favorite IT Hero's. RIP Kevin Mitnick. --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-life-of-kevin-mitnick-the-world-s-most-famous-hacker-kk4dbjmkk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Life of Kevin Mitnick: The World’s Most Famous Hacker","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-life-of-kevin-mitnick-the-world-s-most-famous-hacker-kk4dbjmkk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-life-of-kevin-mitnick-the-world-s-most-famous-hacker-kk4dbjmkk"},"datePublished":"2023-07-20T13:52:35.928Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z","description":"Kevin Mitnick was born on the 6th of August, 1963 in Van Nuys, California. 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RIP Kevin Mitnick.","datePublished":"2023-07-24T17:12:52.692Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk4DBJMkk#c-EbMzP2rBy","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Raul Ortiz","url":"https://daily.dev/dragonsong3k","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AGNmyxYln6WKJ4B9hGl1vC6fImKmyeIzk-CkcMBOL4Mz=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```