You have all probably read about the security breaches that have happened in recent months including the Sony PlayStation Network debacle, various Gaming websites, Fox.com and many, many more.
This has raised many questions over how companies treat our personal data and the measures with which they take to protect it. As a result it saw the brief (but even that was too long) rise to prominence of Lulsec; a loose group of people (I refuse to use the term hacker because they were not that) who claimed to be exposing flaws in systems and shifting Gigabytes of personal data on millions of people and placing them on the internet for all to see.
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