A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. WE ARE ANONYMOUS offers a gripping, adrenaline-fueled narrative in the style of The Accidental Billionaires and The Social Network, drawing upon literally hundreds of conversations with the members themselves, including exclusive interviews.

In 2011, a group of renegade computer hackers who call themselves LulzSec broke into computer systems at VISA, Mastercard, and PayPal. They have infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia. They have attacked the FBI, CIA, and NATO. But instead of being sanctimonious and secretive like Wikileaks and Anonymous, with which they have close ties, LulzSec is flippant and taunting, never hesitating to take a dig at those they've outsmarted. The computer security world--and the world at large--is quickly figuring out that the collective is something to treat with dead seriousness. This is the story of a hive mind, with many hackers across the globe connected to slice through security systems and escape untraced. Through the stories of four key members, WE ARE LEGION offers a gripping, adrenaline-fueled narrative in the style of The Accidental Billionaires/The Social Network, drawing upon literally hundreds of conversations with the members themselves, including exclusive interviews. By coming to know them--their childhoods, families, and personal demons--we come to know the human side of their virtual exploits, showing exactly why they're so passionate about disrupting the internet's frontiers.