Team Neon

Team Neon are a "white-hat" hacktivist group formed in 2014 by Tim Yu Jin-Lau, Gavin Bausch, Beth Legault and various other friends. The group is based in Rivadavia, Chubut, Patagonia. Its targets include various authoritarian regimes, supporters of such regimes, non-hacktivist hackers, child predation rings and scammers.

It has anti-authoritarianist and centre-left political stances, and is known for its members being hidden behind lifelike human masks, provided by Metamorphose Masks, Realflesh Masks, Composite Effects, Inc. and the like, supported by fictional backstories.

Although rumored to be affiliated with the government of Patagonia under the rule of president Jacob Dunham due to Team Neon supporting Dunham's policies and political views, both Dunham and Team Neon refuse these claims, however Dunham praises Team Neon for "defending democracy and clearing the name of hacking".

History
The first hack attributed to Team Neon was in 2015 when the website of the BNP (British National Party) was defaced by a video of a teenage African-American man putting on a full kit of gridiron football gear, followed by a written message denouncing the BNP's political stances and claiming the BNP to support the idea of an authoritarian Britain.

Four years later, in 2019, the CCTV website was hacked and defaced with an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping, photoshopped to resemble the children's book character Winnie-the-Pooh, with a message in Chinese asking them to retreat from Hong Kong and listen to the demands of the protesters inciting the then-ongoing Hong Kong protests.

In 2020, various far-right websites were hacked, including that of the far-right One America News Network channel. All hacked websites were defaced with the logo of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Members
Only the names of the original six members are known to other members of Team Neon (it is passed off as being mere speculation to the general public, and their faces are not fully shown), and are as follows:
 * Tim Yu Jin-Lau, born in Patagonia to Cantonese parents from Hong Kong, is the group's de facto leader. He uses the pseudonym CoolTeon, an African-American man affiliated with the worldbuilding community on Wikia/Fandom, and, in addition to a custom-made mask of a black teenage man, wears a CoolTeon-branded hoodie.
 * Gavin Bausch, based in Luxembourg, goes under the pseudonym Rodney, who appears to be a middle-aged businessman and CEO of the fictional media company VerizonMedia.
 * French-Canadian Beth Legault from Montreal, Quebec uses the pseudonym DrippyDave, an Afro-American prank/challenge YouTuber and football linebacker. He wears his football suit (purchased when he moved for a while to the United States) along with a "The Athlete" mask from Realflesh Masks and matching gloves.
 * Brandon de Bekker, based in South Africa, goes under the nickname/cover name Big Man Tyrone, an Internet meme fanatic based in Miami, Florida. Tyrone, like Yu, wears a The Black Model mask from Metamorphose Masks, matching gloves and a hoodie, which meanwhile is themed on the flag of the fictional country Kekistan.
 * Cambridge, England-based Jonathan Heidel goes under the alias Yukari Ayame, a Japanese anime schoolgirl from Asakusa, Tokyo. He wears a silicone mask of an Asian girl, a matching bodysuit with gloves, and a full Japanese school uniform.
 * Kaitlyn Posadas, from Cebu City, Philippines, uses the pseudonym SixteenBitsGaming, a retro video game reviews YouTuber. She wears a silicone male mask, specifically the Composite Effects Martin mask, including gloves to match and a Mario-themed sweater.

Timeline of hacking incidents

 * June 2015: First attack attributed to "CoolTeon", targeted the British National Party website.
 * August 2015: Member "BigManTyrone" hacked into various websites related to ISIS, doxxing 17 militants in the process.
 * July 2016: First attack under the Team Neon name. Targets included far-right bloggers, phishing scam sites and spammers.
 * October 2016: North Korean websites hacked and defaced with a submitted drawing of Kim Jong-un's mutilated corpse, with a message in Korean warning the North Korean government not to "nuke the world to death". The government complied with their warnings.
 * May 2017: Kill switch in WannaCry ransomware discovered, with Team Neon receiving praise for the act.