This can lead to identity theft and other malicious acts. (thewindowsclub.com)
It's not even a conscious malicious act, in most instances. (frieze.com)
A village is plagued with strange, malicious acts of violence and spite, and at the community's social apex is the pastor, superbly played by Burghart Klaussner, who is a strict disciplinarian, making his errant children wear a white ribbon of contrition on their arm: the ribbon looks weirdly both like a Nazi armband and a yellow star. (theguardian.com)