The Hackers, Series 1, For the Lulz

The Hackers

Series 1

For the Lulz

December 20, 2021

14 minutes

Available for over a year

Biella and technology journalist Frank Bajak discuss how two teenage hackers, calling themselves Lulzsec Peru, managed to expose corruption and shook the Peruvian government to the core with a massive leak of documents - and in doing so become some of the most impactful hacktivists of the early 2000s.