A report from the SRA, Spiders in the Web, states that the number reported to the regulatory body rose by 57 per cent in 2013. A common approach by the criminals is to steal the identity of a real firm and to assume that identity in an online advertisement. The report also reveals that a group of activists called Anti-sec hacked into the servers of a Washington law firm which was acting on behalf of a US solder who had been tried and convicted on war crime charges in Iraq. A statement from Anti-sec threatened to repeat the exercise - which involved posting up emails stored by the firm - 'if law firms stick their necks out in defence of notoriously corrupt corporations'. Source: Legal Futures