The earliest known instance of hacktivism as documented by Julian Assange is as follows:[REF] "Hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when DOE, HEPNET and SPAN (NASA) connected VMS machines world wide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm."
In 1996, the title of the United States Department of Justice's homepage was changed to "Department of Injustice".