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The closest we got to an answer about who perpetrated these hacks was a quote in the article: > Only intelligence services or people who know where the servers

The closest we got to an answer about who perpetrated these hacks was a quote in the article: > Only intelligence services or people who know where the servers are located can pull off things like that. I don't really know how the quotee would arrive at that conclusion, but I do agree the seemingly systemic nature of these hacks, e.g. "Let's hit the popular dark web forums." isn't usually how criminals operate, based on my limited understanding. That said, groups of people do seemingly weird things all the time, so I dunno if it's anything other than a gentle nudge in a direction. Hardly a smoking gun. Additionally, I've always heard the sophistication levels of hacking groups go (from least to most): activists -> criminals -> state groups. I don't know if that's changed in some recent years, but that's how I learned it.

meowface 6y ago
> "Let's hit the popular dark web forums." isn't usually how criminals operate, based on my limited understanding. Indeed. Most cybercrime, like most crime in general, is primarily interested in just making money as effectively, efficiently, and safely as possible. No point stirring up a bunch of big hornet's nests when you don't need to. Whatever it is, it's definitely not ordinary activity. Non-exhaustive list of some possibilities I'd imagine: - Blackhats who are part of that sphere with a chip on their shoulder - Blackhats trying to start, promote, or perhaps (false-flag style) direct suspicion towards a competing forum or other platform - Whitehats / greyhats who just don't like fraudsters and thieves and want to fuck with them and give them a taste of their own medicine - Intelligence agencies / law enforcement