Slightly related, this former hacker started a HF based on monitoring hacker activism and shorting companies: http://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-weev-auernheimer-hedge-fund-2014-4 I guess this would also be a legal way to make money out of hacking. And of course someone bought a shitload of puts on Equifax a week before the news broke...
Hackers in America do the most. They are a million steps ahead of others and the dark web. They are passionate and don't do things just for money. It's deeper
How do you know? If they are so good, why didn't they hacked the Russians who hacked DNC and Clinton? Why don't they hack Putin, N Korea....
He probably meant Russian immigrant hackers living in America. A dead hacker isn't a good hacker, so Putin is safe.