Hacker/Premature deaths

Hacker/Premature deaths (Premature deaths,  name list)
Premature deaths of hackers, not necessarily suspicious

This page lists hackers have suddenly died.  

Assassinated hackers on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Arjen Kamphuis	1971		Hacker	Dutch IT-expert with a Wikileaks connection. He disappeared during a trip in Norway in 2018.
Nikolai Mushegian	28 March 1993	28 October 2022	Hacker Millionaire Epstein Affair/Premature death	Cryptocurrency developer found dead after tweeting "CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and caribbean islands. They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex gf who was a spy. They will torture me to death."
Erik van Sabben	31 January 1972	16 January 2009	Spook Hacker Engineer	Engineer-recruited-spook that was responsible for installing Stuxnet in Iranian nuclear facilities. Found death 2 weeks later in a "motorcycle accident"

 

Other prematurely deceased hackers on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
James Dolan	20 July 1981	27 December 2017	Soldier Hacker	A hacker who was connected to Aaron Swartz and who like Swartz, died by suicide. Some question the circumstances.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Boris Floricic	8 June 1972	17 October 1998	Hacker	German hacker/phreaker with strong interest in cryptography found dead in a park. Ruled a suicide.
Barnaby Jack	22 November 1977	25 July 2013	Hacker	Hacker who died before he could give a presentation on how to hack pacemakers.
Adrian Lamo	20 February 1981	14 March 2018	Hacker	American hacker who committed "suicide" in 2018.
Ian Murdock		2016	Hacker	Alpha hacker died in unclear circumstances aged 42
Aaron Swartz	8 November 1986	11 January 2013	Hacker	A hacker who died a suspicious death after using his talents to promote freedom of information
Ilya Zhitomirskiy	12 October 1989	12 November 2011	Hacker Businessperson	Russian hacker who co-developed Diaspora, a distributed social network which was marketed as a Facebook killer. Officially a suicide.

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