Kevin Mitnick News Archive

The Kevin Mitnick News Archive is now live.

Kevin Mitnick (1963–2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and one of the best-known hackers of the 1980s and 1990s — and Alex’s best friend. They met through the Los Angeles phreaking community in the late 1980s and later co-founded Defensive Thinking together.

Reliable historical material about Kevin’s career has gotten harder to find over the years — lost to paywalls, dead websites, misinformation, or well-intentioned data scrubbing — so this archive aims to be a central reference for published material about him. It’s a work in progress, with new sources added as they turn up. Explore the archive.