We are constantly warned to protect our passwords, Social Security numbers and other “personal identifying information” to thwart thieves who may steal laptops or perpetrate online fraud. Although such breaches have soared since 2005 ( right ) as criminals try to commit identity theft, the truly enormous breaches ( bottom ) have increasingly been carried out by “hacktivists”--individuals or groups who are angry about an organization’s actions. Hackers, for example, exposed data about 77 million Sony customers after the company pursued legal action against other hackers.
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