So far, the Occupy Wall Street movement has conducted their protest nonviolently for the most part, which has helped their cause.

But there has been some cyber-violence that certainly cannot be condoned. A group of hackers professing their solidarity with the protests apparently hacked into the Goldman Sachs systems to retrieve some personal information on employees, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

A group using the @CabinCr3w handle issued a tweet that directed people to a Pastebin web site, where they could find "Blankfein's age, education, recent addresses, and legal cases he has been involved in, as well as the emails and titles of more than eighty employees."

It does not appear that SSNs or other critical personal information was compromised. CabinCr3w also released personal information of a New York police officer who was seen in videos pepper spraying women protesters behind a police barricade at the demonstrations, according to CNN.

Obviously, it's hard to control the movement when the passions heat up on both sides. Perhaps the leadership could use its influence to implore people not to cross the line on the ground and in cyberspace. We have to think that cyber theft of personal information will do more to undermine the cause than help it. We can hope that the incident does not spark copycat hackers who are willing to go to extremes. It remains unclear if any hacker groups intend to make good on threats to attack the New York Stock Exchange web site.

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