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{{Short description|Canadian security expert and computer hacker}}

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| birth_date = 1984
| birth_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]
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| known_for = DDoS attacks
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'''Michael Calce''' (born 1984, also known as '''Mafiaboy''') is a security expert and former computer hacker from [[Île Bizard]], [[Quebec]], who launched a series of highly publicized [[denial-of-service attack]]s in February 2000 against large commercial websites, including [[Yahoo!]], [[FIFA|Fifa.com]], [[Amazon.com]], [[Dell, Inc.]], [[E*TRADE]], [[eBay]], and [[CNN]].<ref name="fbi">{{Citation|title=FBI Facts and Figure 2003|url=https://www.fbi.gov/libref/factsfigure/factsfiguresapri2003.htm|accessdate=2007-03-27|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326115414/http://www.fbi.gov/libref/factsfigure/factsfiguresapri2003.htm|archivedate=2007-03-26}}</ref> He also launched a series of failed simultaneous attacks against nine of the thirteen [[root name server]]s.<ref name="CalceMichael"/>{{Page needed|date=May 2017}}