Posted on 12/26/2011 1:27:54 PM PST by traumer
The hacking group "Anonymous" on Sunday Christmas claimed it has stolen thousands of credit card numbers and personal information of clients of the U.S. based security think-tank Stratfor and pilfered funds it gave away as Christmas donations to charity.
Anonymous said it stole information from organizations and individuals that were clients of Stratfor, including Apple Inc., the U.S. Air Force and the Miami Police Department. They said they obtained more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses.
Huffington Post reports that some clients of Stratfor have confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards. Stratfor is a company providing services to help clients manage risk. The company charges subscribers for reports and analysis it issues. Huffington Post reports that the company's main website was down in Sunday with the message: "site is currently undergoing maintenance." Most of the victims, according to Huffington Post, were individual subscribers and not companies and government agencies. Anonymous in a Twitter message taunted Stratfor, saying: "Not so private and secret anymore?" The group promised that Stratfor was only the beginning of attacks to come.
Anonymous claims that it was able to steal as much as 200 gigabytes of information from Stratfor because Stratfor did not bother to encrypt them. This revelation, if true, is a serious indictment of a security services-related company. The hackers published a list of what they claimed was Stratfor's client list and tweeted a link to encrypted files with stolen names, phone numbers, emails addresses, credit card and account details. The hackers claimed that the information they have published so far is only a small part of what they stole from Stratfor.
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I bow in humbleness and humility to the superior method.
I am a member also.I checked my accounts and no change yet. I do have life lock and called them to report the breech. They had a live person to help me on Christmas.
They are a good organization.
So they hack and steal the dollars from CC owners. The owners notice and report unauthorized charges on their CC. The CC writes them off if client reported it as unauthorized charge(s) within certain time frame. So CC companies write off as a bad debt on their taxes and they have to pay less taxes...which means they are adding to the National Fed Debt...
So yeah, thanks Anonymous...
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