{"id":254,"date":"2015-08-20T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/08\/20\/trend-activist-hackers\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:03:00","slug":"trend-activist-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/trend-activist-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: Activist Hackers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few weeks have cemented a growing trend of activist hackers. Examples from the last year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2014\/12\/13\/timeline-sony-breach-data-leaks-far\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sony Pictures hack: Everything we know so far<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/anonymous-hackers-release-emails-ordering-bear-cubs-be-killed-1.3147003\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anonymous hackers release emails ordering bear cubs be killed<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/20\/technology\/ashley-madison-hack\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hackers threaten to release names from adultery website<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2015\/02\/20\/how-latest-snowden-leak-is-headache-for-white-house\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Latest Snowden Leak Is Headache for White House<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2739764\/Did-iClouds-Find-My-iPhone-function-help-hackers-steal-celebrities-nude-photos-Flaw-exposed-hundreds-images.html\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How DID hackers\u00a0steal celebrities\u2019 private iCloud photos?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Expect to see more moves into the realm of politics,\u00a0social issues, and corporate interests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/08\/08\/hacking-for-cause-todays-growing-cyber-security-trend\/\">Tech Crunch: Hacking for a Cause: Today&#8217;s Growing Cyber Security Trend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few weeks have cemented a growing trend of activist hackers. Examples from the last year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2014\/12\/13\/timeline-sony-breach-data-leaks-far\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sony Pictures hack: Everything we know so far<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/anonymous-hackers-release-emails-ordering-bear-cubs-be-killed-1.3147003\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anonymous hackers release emails ordering bear cubs be killed<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/20\/technology\/ashley-madison-hack\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hackers threaten to release names from adultery website<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2015\/02\/20\/how-latest-snowden-leak-is-headache-for-white-house\/\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Latest Snowden Leak Is Headache for White House<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2739764\/Did-iClouds-Find-My-iPhone-function-help-hackers-steal-celebrities-nude-photos-Flaw-exposed-hundreds-images.html\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:26px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How DID hackers\u00a0steal celebrities\u2019 private iCloud photos?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Expect to see more moves into the realm of politics,\u00a0social issues, and corporate interests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/08\/08\/hacking-for-cause-todays-growing-cyber-security-trend\/\">Tech&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}