Interesting interview on Anonymous' site explaining "Spirit of LulzX­mas," a hacking campaign that claims to have "spent over $76,000 of the banks lovely money."  (For more on who actually funds these campaigns, read here.)  No way to corroborate if any of this is true, but it is interesting to see how hacktivism continue to evolve.

Some highlights:

• The objective:  "aim­ing for a mil­lion by xmas"
• The process: 
  • "we hack mas­sive hosts to get the VPS’s [virtual private server] and domains etc then we hit banks accounts ter­mi­nals to lit­er­ally steal from the rich and put in vir­tual e-credit cards"
  • They also use SQL injection.  In one case, they stole clothes online:  "the web­site was SQLi vuln so we hacked it"
• The impact:  they claim to have stockpiled "25 x $50K" in virtual credit cards.  They're using this to buy
  • Apple products: "iPods, iPads, iphones etc iPad is more asked 4"
  • Pizzas for the occupy movements.

One question the interviewer failed to ask:  "How do you feel about raising credit card and banking fees for the 99% as a result of your hacking campaign?"