Chris Goggans (also known as Erik Bloodaxe in honor of the Viking king Eric I of Norway) is an American hacker, a founding member of the Legion of Doom group, and a former editor of Phrack magazine.
He has performed network security assessments for some of the world's largest corporations, including all facets of critical infrastructure, with work spanning 22 countries across four continents.
Goggans has worked with US Federal law enforcement agencies on notorious computer crime cases.
During the summer of 2003, Goggans was invited to become an associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Center for Collaborative Research.
I have never broken anything, I have never done anything really, really, criminally bad.”[10]However, in a phone call intercepted by the Australian Federal Police as part of an investigation into Australian hacker Phoenix (Nahshon Even-Chaim) Goggans was heard planning a raid in which the pair would steal source code and developmental software from Execucom, a Texas-based software and technology company headquartered in Austin, and sell it to the company's rivals.