Ranked Motives

  1. Money: I think motive is the number one motive due to being able to perpetrators being able to extort people for money and threaten them with their personal information.

2. Revenge: Revenge would be the 2nd most common due to trying to harm someone whole may have wronged the perpetrator in the past and they want to take matter into their own hands and get revenge

3.Boredom: I ranked boredom as number three due to perpetrators not having anything else to do so they purposely extort and expose people information for their own entertainment

4.Political: Politics could play a huge role in online cyber-attacks to push propaganda out or even remove propaganda which is why i have it ranked as number 4

5.Multiple Reasons: A perpetrator could have all of these factors and that could be the reasoning behind them attacking other online.

6.Recognition: A perpetrator could seek recognition from other due to outside circumstances which could drive them to want to feel “seen” but in the wrong way.

7. Entertainment: I think entertainment and boredom correlate together as one so thats why i ranked entertainment last on the list.