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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