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The Return of Hacktivism

2021/10/15
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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Over the last month, the domain company Epik and the streaming service Twitch have fallen prey to massive-scale hacks. The hackers revealed not just email addresses, but detailed personal information too. For Twitch, it was the entire source code for their site. 

But the attackers aren’t holding this data for ransom. In fact, they don’t seem to want much of anything. What’s motivating this new wave of activist hacks? And who suffers?

**Guest: **Drew Harwell), tech reporter at the Washington Post

**Host: **Lizzie O’Leary

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