Definition of "hacktivist"

One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist..

2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 66

However, there remain many cybersecurity concerns about the railways. For example, and perhaps more pertinently, 'hacktivists' - hackers with a political rather than a financial motive - in Belarus were reported to have taken breached computers that control rail movements in the country in an effort to delay Russian supplies to their front line in the early stages of the war against Ukraine.

2023 March 22, Christian Wolmar, “Cybersecurity concerns highlight a range of potential risks”, in RAIL, number 979, pages 32–33