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Activists with hacker skills were behind more than half the data stolen in cyber attacks last year, according to findings released on Thursday by Verizon Communications.

Security experts Sophos warn that links being forwarded on Twitter can make any PC an unwitting part of 'hacktivist' group Anonymous's cyber attacks – an act that could carry a jail sentence.

Lulz Security, the hacker activist group claiming credit for breaking into websites at Sony Corp., the U.S. Senate and the Central Intelligence Agency, said it’s ending a wave of cyber attacks that began almost two months ago.