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DID YOU KNOW? By late 2020, online passwords used worldwide will number 300 billion
The shadowy world of hacker groups
Cyber criminals often reside in online
communities, sharing things they’ve learned and
boasting about their ‘accomplishments’.
The more hackers that work together, the
bigger the feats they’re able to pull off, and
often they join forces for some shared goal.
One of the most infamous was the hacker
group Anonymous. Branding themselves as‘hacktivists’ they wore Guy Fawkes masks and
claimed to take on the big corporate and
government bad guys on behalf of the ordinary
people of the world. But since 2015 they haveall
but disappeared, with fewer hacktivist attacks
reported worldwide. Getting involved in political
hacking is thought to be one of the reasons
many of its members quit.SonyPlayStation
Network
20 April 2011
A total of 77 million accounts were
compromised following an attack by
hacker group LulzSec – a splinter group
of Anonymous – with an estimated
company loss of $171 million while the
site was down for a month.US AND UK JAPANPowergridstrike
June 2019
Last year Russia claimed to have
thwarted a US cyber attack on its
energy infrastructure. Cyber security
experts claim it could have been a
retaliatory strike for a Russian
intrusion on the US power grid a
year earlier.US RUSSIAWannaCry
12 May 2017
The WannaCry epidemic knocked
out more than 200,000 computers
in 150 countries including the UK, US
and Spain. Hackers with ties to
North Korea were blamed.NORTHKORREA WORLDWIDENotPetya/ExPetr
27 June 2017
The costliest worldwide ransom
attack in history at an estimated
$10 billion (£7.73 billion). The attack
began in Ukraine and spread to
Europe and the US, with the
American and UK governments
blaming the Russian military.RUSSIA WORLDWIDEn
Hacktivist group
Anonymous were
fond of wearing
Guy Fawkes
masks on screen© GettyTheft,planeandsimple
2010 to 2015CHINA USHoldSecuritybreach
August 2014RUSSIA US