The recent hacking spree by Lulzsec has helped make hacktivism a household term. The Lulzsec team leveraged the methods and technologies used by private hackers to steal data and sell it on the black market.
To understand how Lulzsec could thrive requires an understanding of how criminal hacking operates. The Digital Age has created a huge, global black market for data. Today, mature online exchanges exist that resemble eBay in structure, only their focus is selling personal and corporate data of all kinds. For example, credit cards are put up for sale in this hacker forum:
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