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Re: More than just Stratfor

By: RalphOmega in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
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Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 16702 of 21975
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I'm in the Stratfor database...one of the 75k paying customers. Got an email last week offering a year of free identity theft 'insurance'.

Dear STRATFOR member , 

 As we alerted you over the weekend, an unauthorized party illegally obtained and disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card data of some of our members. 

 We deeply regret that this event has occurred, and we are working to prevent it from happening again. 

 Our highest concern is the impact that this has had on you, our loyal members and friends.

As a result and at our expense, we have taken measures to provide our members whose personally identifiable information may have been compromised with access to CSID, a leading provider of global identity protection and fraud detection solutions and technologies. 

 We have arranged to provide one year of CSID’s coverage to you at no cost. Please take advantage of this service. To verify the authenticity of this email and our partnership with CSID...

The card I used is expired now anyway, so I'm not at any risk, but the whole event is an annoying reminder that security on the internet is only as good as the security for each site where one provides information.


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More than just Stratfor
By: lkorrow in CONSTITUTION
Sat, 31 Dec 11 11:18 PM 		Msg. 16699 of 21975

Interesting that al Qaeda's strategy is to attack supply lines and police/military. So is OWS's. What a coincidence.

Anonymous exposes 75,000 credit card numbers

By Jolie O'Dell | VentureBeat.com,
Published: December 30

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/anonymous-exposes-860k-stratfor-users-and-75k-credit-card-numbers/2011/12/30/gIQA5oXqQP_story.html

Hacker collective Anonymous has just dumped 200 GB of names, email addresses and passwords for around 860,000 Stratfor users. Anonymous also exposed credit card numbers for 75,000 paying customers of Stratfor. . . .

“The time for talk is over,” wrote Anonymous last night on Pastebin.

“It’s time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor. But that’s not all: we’re also dumping ~860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who’s ever registered on Stratfor’s site… Did you notice 50,000 of these email addresses are .mil and .gov?”

Anonymous’ motives for the attack are also somewhat hazy. In last night’s statement, representatives of the movement wrote, “All our lives we have been robbed blindly and brutalized by corrupted politicians, establishmentarians and government agencies sex shops, and now it’s time to take it back.”

In addition to the Stratfor attack and exposure, Anonymous is threatening a new action on New Year’s Eve, December 31.

In addition to “noise demonstrations” outside of jails and prisons, ostensibly to show solidarity and support for the incarcerated, Anonymous says it will unveil “our contributions to project mayhem by attacking multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast.” . . .

Full story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/anonymous-exposes-860k-stratfor-users-and-75k-credit-card-numbers/2011/12/30/gIQA5oXqQP_story.html

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