Also on Friday, LulzSec issued a lengthy statement explaining their actions throughout the week and showing no remorse for their actions. Ostensibly, their point was to highlight how flawed many companies' Internet security was, but they also explained that they indulged in this behavior for "entertainment" purposes.

That's the week to date. Hacking activity has been growing a great deal in the past few weeks since Sony's high-profile security breach. Be sure to keep yourself safe online by using different passwords for different sites; using secure passwords that include mixtures of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols -- especially on sites that store your payment information such as Amazon and PayPal; and consider setting up dummy email addresses for publicly-accessible accounts to help keep your private email private.

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