# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/markus-hess
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:42:54.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/markus-hess"
name: "Markus Hess"
slug: "markus-hess"
description: "Markus Hess is a German hacker and spy who was active in the 1980s. Alongside Dirk Brzezinski and Peter Carl, Hess hacked into networks of military and industrial computers based in the United States, Europe and East Asia, and sold the information to the Soviet KGB for US$54,000. During his time working for the KGB, Hess is estimated to have broken into 400 U.S. military computers. The hacked material included \"sensitive semiconductor, satellite, space, and aircraft technologies\"."
tagline: "German hacker"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1960-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.286693333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B3_%DB%81%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "مارکس ہیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "ماركوس هيس (جاسوس من المانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess_(Hacker)"
    title: "Markus Hess (Hacker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess"
    title: "Markus Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess"
    title: "Markus Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%B9"
    title: "マルクス・ヘス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess"
    title: "Markus Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100244"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump