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Nah, it's not the 00s anymore. Hacker gangs are a real thing today.
I'm not actually in the security field so take this with a grain of salt. But I believe that these attacks play a similar role to random attacks in low level gangs. It proves that your criminal group has power and the ability to deface a website.
So if you publish that Lemmy.world will go down next week because your hackers are on it.... It's advertising. Its just business. It proves that your hackers have an ability and that you are up for sale.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...