Hacktivism's Examples
Given that hacktivism is a relatively new term, it's critical to identify some of the larger hacktivism occurrences and the causes for their occurrence. This can aid organizations in comprehending some of the motivations behind hacktivism and possibly analyzing techniques to prevent becoming victims of hacktivism.

Operation Tunisia
In 2011, the Ministry of Industry in Tunisia was attacked by the cyber group Anonymous. The cyber group even attacked the Tunisian stock exchange. The reason behind the attack was censorship and government attacks of anyone attempting to publish free speech through the website WikiLeaks. The attacks were retaliatory in nature and were comprised of several Distributed Denial of Service processes to knock government sites off-line. A DDoS attack is simply bombarding a legitimate website with so much data and request information it can no longer accept legitimate page requests. They also gained access to government websites and defaced them with letters outing the Tunisian government for oppression of speech and censorship.