ABSTRACT
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is considered to be Europe's largest association of hackers. The CCC is headquartered in Germany and has various factions in other German-speaking countries (Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and so on). The CCC was established in Berlin on September 12, 1981 at a table that had formerly belonged to Kommune 1, the first politically motivated collective in Germany, in the lodgings of the newspaper Die Tageszeitung by Wau Holland and others in expectation of the prominent starring role that computer systems would play in the manner in which the world lived and communicated. The CCC is well known for its public demonstrations of cybersecurity risks. In 1996, CCC members revealed an exploit against a vulnerability in Microsoft's ActiveX technology, altering personal data in a Quicken database. In 1987, the CCC was marginally involved in the first cyber espionage court case to make worldwide headlines.
