How to Use hacktivism in a Sentence

hacktivism

noun

• So your hacktivism, to get a lot of support, has to be very nonpartisan.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• DDoS attacks still have an outsize place within modern hacktivism.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
• Besides, most of the reports of hacktivism are unverifiable at best.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 3 Mar. 2022
• How blockchain and NFTs and decentralization will lead to new forms of hacktivism.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
• Governments around the world will be keen to revert to the status quo from before the Russian invasion of Ukraine—and before hacktivism was legitimized.
  — WIRED, 23 Jan. 2023
• The podcast features true stories about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism and cybercrime.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The origins of hacktivism begin around the Zapatista movement, but the concept remained little known until 2003, the year that Anonymous began to emerge.
  — Paulo Nuno Vicenteall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• With inflation and the rising cost of living, the world may witness digital civil disobedience occurring in the form of hacktivism, where citizens attack their own government or infrastructure as a way to stage protests.
  — Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Zapatistas, considered the first informational guerrilla movement, used hacktivism, or manipulating computer systems or networks to promote a political ideology or social change.
  — Paulo Nuno Vicenteall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• According to a 2025 report by the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), an industry consortium, the financial services sector was the top target of DDoS attacks in 2024, with the Hamas-Israel and Russia-Ukraine wars fueling a surge in hacktivism.
  — Reuters wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026