It can't be money (as mentioned, by selling the data to gossip magazines they could earn more Bitcoins than MtGox), it can't be security (or else they'd have posted how they gained entry) and it can't really be fame as the feds will stop at nothing to hunt them down now...
>I'm the bad guy in the news that's targeting the US government for funding Israel.
> US government to stop funding Israel and for them to stop killing innocent people
> Did you know there was over 26,000 civilian deaths due to war-related violence in the Afghanistan war
> Did you know the US military bombed an Afghan hospital? [0]
So, basically it's about freedom from the US government suppressing other states.
[0] http://pastebin.com/KtN8FqPu that is linked in the article
>I'm below the age of 22 years old. I smoke pot. And I live in America
>I'm going to go to Russia and chill with Snowden because I know the government is pretty mad about this I'm probably going to get tortured. I'm actually a pretty fast runner.
>The government and the police. Like the White House people. They're losers.
Looks like they did it for the lulz to me.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/19/technology/cia-hack-john-bre...
I laud his reasons.