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Date: 2012-01-04
According to CNET, Anonymous hacker group released more data contains email addresses and credit card numbers of Stratfor members which was stolen previous week.
Anonymous group had claimed that they obtained 200 GB of sensitive data containing the email addresses and customers credit card information of Stratfor security think tank in America. At that time, they just published the list of the members of Stratfor. But now, they warned that they will release the unencrypted credit cards information of 75000 members of that company. They also claimed to have as many as 2.7 million copies of Stratfor e-mails that they plan to release.
The hacker group also warned that they will attack more law enforcement targets around the world in solidarity with the prisoners. As an example, they had attacked to the SpecialForces.com website and took out data of 14 thousand passwords and eight thousands of credit card information which was encrypted.
"Stratfor regrets the latest disclosure of information obtained illegally from the company's data systems," the company said in a statement. "We want to assure our customers and friends this was not a new cyberattack, but was instead a release of information obtained during the previous security breach. The latest disclosure included credit card information of paid subscribers and many e-mail addresses of those who receive Stratfor's free services." Meanwhile, the company is offering to pay for a one-year subscription to identity protection services for anyone affected by the breach.
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