Dec 27,2011

Antisec Hits Private Intel Firm; Million of Docs Allegedly Lifted

The stratfor.com website, breached by members of Anonymous on December 24th. The Antisec wing of Anonymous revealed on Saturday that had compromised the servers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting Inc. — allegedly seizing millions of internal documents and thousands of credit card numbers from the company, more commonly known as Stratfor. That would be a major breach of private information from any firm. But this hack could prove particularly significant, because Stratfor serves as an information-gathering resource and open source intelligence analysis for both the U.S. military and for major corporations. Antisec breached Stratfor’s networks several weeks ago, ...

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