Anti-sec/anon hack stratfor

[djzombie]

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/a...atfor-database

The hacker collective Anonymous posted a database Thursday it says contains hundreds of thousands of email addresses and passwords. The information belongs to anyone who ever subscribed to Austin-based global intelligence firm Stratfor's newsletters or website.

Anonymous began posting information from its hack of Stratfor on Saturday. The inital leak included 4,000 of Stratfor's customers names, addresses and passwords.

Thursday's leak is much larger. Anonymous says the database includes 860,000 usernames, emails and encrypted passwords, as well as 75,000 credit card numbers.

A KXAN analysis of the database revealed many military, law enforcement, government and elected officials' information, as well as several members of the local and national media.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23LulzXmas

Happy #LulzXmas!! Data dump of EVERYONE (860,000) who's ever registered w/ STRATFOR + full 75,000 users' cc data.

All I can say is holy shit.

[AidenCarby]

They did say to expect them, but holy shit that's...wow

[vagus]

Are you fucking stupid?
-dole


my bad.

[AidenCarby]

Wow so they ended up emptying some of those accounts, lol jesus...just hope we don't get in trouble for having that posted here. (I know it's unlikely but still)

[vagus]

IRC must be going crazy.

[AidenCarby]

All those billionaires who are now bankrupts are losing their shit too.

[Mazmaz]

Sorry I just read the wiki on them and I still don't get it. What does STRATFOR do?

[miokomioko]

How embarrassing.

[djzombie]

Sorry I just read the wiki on them and I still don't get it. What does STRATFOR do?

Austin-based global intelligence firm, whatever the fuck that means. Apparently all this information was sitting on their servers unencrypted, which is a violation of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), that requires all CC data to at least be encrypted(according to the thread I just found this article in.)

Seems almost as if they were trying to give it away.

[AidenCarby]

Lol, they're offering 12 months of free identity protection when they can't protect their own shit...awesome.

[AidenCarby]

Enjoy =)

Take down the urls lol, you're gonna get bg owners fucked.

[Aristio]

I absolutely love Anonymous and the shit storm they make every so often.

[Kerberoz]

I have no idea who these people are or what the backstory is, but, regardless, I am amused.

[djzombie]

Yeah I tried to avoid posting direct links to the sites hosting that info due to bg's earlier requests about not posting copyrighted shit, figured it would fall in the category of more severe than copyright infringement on the list of shit they don't want links to. Not like it is difficult to find anyways.

[Cantih]

Sorry I just read the wiki on them and I still don't get it. What does STRATFOR do?

Ok, it's an open source intelligence company.
Basically, think of the CIA. Now, forget about spies and black ops, and think more about the daily brief that it gives to the President.

That's what STRATFOR does, just, for anybody who pays them.

[Callisto]

I thought anon stated that it wasn't them behind this earlier in the week?

[Diamicles]

Odd that anon would give away personal information? I thought that they were set out to do things that DIDN'T hurt the general public, just the companies that they targeted. Seems like giving out usernames, passwords, and CC info is the exact opposite of that?

[Lucavi]

I don't think rich people count as the general public in their eyes, but who knows?

[Gwynplaine]

Typical nihilists. Why do some of you condone them?

[Diamicles]

I don't think rich people count as the general public in their eyes, but who knows?

true, but if this is their work it still seems a bit inconsistent in terms of what they stand for, and who they are out to get, at least in my eyes.