Have you not heard of Distributed Denial of Secrets?

Large entities are hacked and leaked constantly, it's just not reported on much in the mainstream press:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets#...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hacker-who-archived-parl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueLeaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Content_scraping

We live in an age where public outcry gets a site booted off the net, and just prior, some hacker siphons up every bit of data about it's users.

Sounds like hacktivism to me.