I work for a charity and we handle a lot of personal information, and I mean a shedload of information. We were subject to over a dozen cyber attacks last year and as a result we have had to take on two additional information security officers and had to spend a fortune upgrading our IT infastructure.
We aren't a huge multinational with cash slopping around and, appart from the fact that we should be spending that money helping people, that was one of the factors that pushed us into a financial defacit last year, which in turn was the major facor in the decision not to award any of our clerical staff a payrise this April.
Its all very well when people say things like "who does it hurt" and "they target big companies with bad practices" but cybercrime is a huge problem for organisations of all sizes. Im not saying the people arrested here are the same people who are commiting more sisister online attacks, but regardless of the prcise actions or the political motivations of these "hacktivists" they are commiting crimes, and when people defend them they are defending all cyber criminals
