Michael Calce
Canadian security expert and computer hacker / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Calce (born 1984, also known as MafiaBoy) is a security expert and former computer hacker from Île Bizard, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites, including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.[1] He also launched a series of failed simultaneous attacks against nine of the thirteen root name servers.[2][page needed]