Committed/careful/smart organizations already exist. But they aren't motivated by publicity and lols. They make serious money through industrial espionage and financial fraud, and they stay as under the radar as possible. Everyone who has a credit or debit card has likely experienced having that information being stolen in one way or another. Those activities aren't just accidents or pranks by bored teens.
Organized crime is well invested in these sorts of things, and for every one incident you hear about there are dozens or hundreds you don't.
Yes they definitely do exist, but I am referring to the ideological types not the straightforward crime for money. Also need to consider the fact that resources brought against Lulsec etc were orders of magnitude more then what normal credit card fraud criminals have to deal with.
Committed/careful/smart organizations already exist. But they aren't motivated by publicity and lols. They make serious money through industrial espionage and financial fraud, and they stay as under the radar as possible. Everyone who has a credit or debit card has likely experienced having that information being stolen in one way or another. Those activities aren't just accidents or pranks by bored teens.
Organized crime is well invested in these sorts of things, and for every one incident you hear about there are dozens or hundreds you don't.