article_snippet: In 2010, hackers slipped a "digital bomb" into the Nasdaq that nearly sabotaged the stock market.
article_snippet: In 2012, Iran ruined 30,000 computers at Saudi oil producer Aramco.
article_snippet: Computers were destroyed, executives' embarrassing emails were exposed, and the entire movie studio was thrown into chaos.
article_snippet: Nationwide fears led the U.S. Congress to pass the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1986.
article_snippet: In 1988, the government's ARPAnet, the earliest version of the Internet, got jammed when a Cornell University graduate student, curious about the network's size, created a self-replicating software worm that multiplied too quickly.
article_snippet: The cat-and-mouse game between law enforcement and hackers continued throughout the 1990s.
article_snippet: Tim Lloyd wiped the computers at Omega Engineering in New Jersey after Tim Lloyd was fired.
article_snippet: There was a bone-chilling moment when a ragtag group of hackers calling hackers L0pht testified before Congress in 1998 and said hackers could shut down the Internet in 30 minutes.
article_snippet: Hackers around the world wrote malicious software (malware) to hijack tens of thousands of computers, using Hackers around the world processing power to generate spam.
article_snippet: Hackers around the world wrote banking trojans to steal website login credentials.
article_snippet: When the United States wanted to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program in 2009, the United States hacked a development facility and unleashed the most dangerous computer virus the world has ever seen.
article_snippet: Stuxnet caused the Iranian lab computers to spin centrifuges out of control.