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| Anonymous exposes 75,000 credit card numbers |
| 2011-12-30 |
| Posted to WOT Operations because this is an act of cyber-terrorism in my book. 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. Stratfor, a security think tank, provides reports on international security and related threats to government and military personnel as well as to the private sector. It is unknown whether Anonymous gained access to other, more sensitive information during the Stratfor hacks, which occurred on December 24. “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.” OOoohhh.. Government agencies Sex Shops! Now your talking! 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.” Why do I get the feeling that this is being orchestrated from the White House? The same people who orchestrated the OWS protests - which Anonymous also supported. And why isn't the Justice Department looking into this? (and does this tinfoil hat make my head look fat?) |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |