> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Kevin Mitnick - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/kevin-mitnick/ - Published: 1999-01-02T19:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-01-02T23:54:02.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #individual **Kevin Mitnick** was an American computer hacker. ## History On November 9, 2020, Mitnick published a message on [Twitter](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Twitter) that read:[\[1\]](#fn1) > Such great news from [Pfizer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pfizer) about a 90%+ effective [Covid vaccine](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pfizer-BioNTech-COVID-19-vaccine). So happy that lives will be saved and hopefully the world can go back to normal. > Thank you Pfizer and [BioNTech](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/BioNTech)! Mitnick died on July 16, 2023 from [pancreatic cancer](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pancreatic-cancer),[\[2\]](#fn2) which he had reportedly been battling for "more than a year."[\[3\]](#fn3) ## External links - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%5FMitnick) --- 1. Kevin Mitnick \[@kevinmitnick\]. (2020, November 9). *“Such great news from Pfizer about a 90%+ effective Covid vaccine. So happy that lives will be saved and hopefully the world can go back to normal. Thank you Pfizer and BioNTech!”* \[Tweet\]. Twitter. [↩︎](#fnref1) 2. Traub, A. (2023, July 20). *Kevin Mitnick, Once the “Most Wanted Computer Outlaw,” Dies at 59.* The New York Times. [↩︎](#fnref2) 3. *Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV.* Dignity Memorial. Retrieved July 20, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref3)