She studied the possibility of using EEG brainwaves for authentication instead of using a password. In 2009, she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the Kazakh National Technical University, specializing in information security. Alexandra wrote a PHP program that exploited a vulnerability on the website to download paywalled books without payment. The publisher was MIT Press, which published online books on neuroscience, but they were locked behind a paywall that she could not afford. Alexandra wrote in her blog that she first hacked a publisher's website when she was 15. Instead, the provider cut off her internet access.

She reported these issues to the internet provider, hoping to get a job with them, but this did not happen. Later, she discovered there were more vulnerabilities of the cross-site scripting type. She performed her first computer hack at the age of 14 using SQL injection, she obtained access to all logins and passwords of her home internet provider. She attempted to create a Tamagotchi powered by artificial intelligence. Īlexandra started programming at the age of 12, making web pages in HTML and later writing in PHP, Delphi, and Assembly languages. Armenian, Slavic and Asian roots.' Alexandra was raised by a single mother, who was an accomplished computer programmer.

Youth Įlbakyan was born in Almaty, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (then called Alma-Ata in the Soviet Union), on 6 November 1988. Since 2011, she has been living in Russia. In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten 'people who mattered' in science. Įlbakyan has been described as 'Science's Pirate Queen'. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan ( Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright.

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