What You Need to Know Before Hiring a Hacker

What do Hackers Do?

There are lots of services that fall under the umbrella of hacking. Some of the most common things that hackers do are as follows, as well as common prices associated with these acts.

Personal Attacks

Hackers who are hired to make personal attacks against individuals generally charge more for this service than for any other hacking service. Examples of these personal attacks can be spreading libelous claims, financial theft, and creating legal trouble for the other person. A common tactic used by hackers is to frame their victim of buying child pornography.

Changing Grades

Another common service that hackers will offer is changing course grades for students. The common desire for higher grades makes this one of the most popular and expensive hacking services. Hackers will hack into schools of any grade level and some will even be able to obtain answers to future tests and exams.

Website Hacking

You can also hire someone to hack into a website for you. On average it costs a little under $400 to pay someone to do this for you. Once they have gotten into the website, they can create all sorts of trouble.

For example, they can interfere with the web servers that host the website, mess with the administrative panel of the website, steal databases, and steal administrative information.

Like other forms of hacking, the motives for a website attack vary based on the hacker. They could do it for money, for revenge, to spread disinformation, for political purposes, or they could simply do it as a way to prank the people or groups running the website they are hacking.

DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack

DDOS attacks are startlingly cheap. For just 25$ an hour, you can pay for a five minute DDOS attack against a server. For around $400, you can disrupt that server’s traffic for an entire day. DDoS attacks are one of the most common forms of cyber attack on the internet, according to Norton. See also Trusted Hackers for Hire.

In short, a DDoS attack is when hackers attempt to crash a website by flooding it with an overwhelming amount of web traffic. It is particularly common for hackers to extort websites with low-level DDoS attacks, with the promise to increase the strength and severity of the attacks if the victim does not agree to pay a cryptocurrency ransom.

Digital Bank Heist

You can hire a hacker online to rob a bank for you. In exchange for breaking into a private bank account, the hacker takes a cut of the money that you are stealing. Because of the high risk nature of bank robbery, hackers will likely take a larger cut of accounts with small balances than they will from large accounts.

Stealing Rewards Points

Did you know that you can hire a hacker to steal customer loyalty rewards points from someone else? You can. The cost of this will depend on who you are stealing from and how many rewards points/frequent flier miles you are intending to steal.

Hacking Social Media

You can also hire someone to hack into a social media account. This can be someone you know personally or a famous person you don’t like. Hackers offering these services generally will charge a fee of at least $129.

It is also common for people to hire ethical hackers to hack into their own social media accounts that they no longer have access to.

This could be an account that was stolen from them from a previous time when they were hacked themselves, it could be because they have lost their log-on information, or any other reasons why a person no longer has access to their old social media accounts.