Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59

This New York Times obituary recounts Kevin Mitnick’s rise as the era’s most notorious computer fugitive and his later career as a security consultant and author, following his death at age 59.

The piece, appearing in the same paper whose reporter John Markoff had helped make Mitnick a household name in the 1990s, surveys his full arc from teenage phone phreak to industry consultant.