Hackers breaking Internet Security company For Charity
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The group called Anonymous hackers have reportedly managed to steal customer information, including credit card information from Stratfor security site.
Chief executive of Stratfor, George Friedman, confirmed that their site has indeed been hijacked hackers. Until this news was written, the site Stratfor.com still accessible and is under repair.
Hackers managed to steal credit card information, including passwords, and home address about 4000 clients Stratfor. Organizations listed as clients Stratfor is Bank of America, Department of Defense, Doctors Without Borders, Lockeheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the United Nations. While the total number of credit card data is stolen as many as 90 thousand accounts
The results of the credit card used piracy Anonymous to be donated to social institutions. Evident from the results of the investigation, evidence of receipt Anonymous donations received 180 U.S. dollars to the American Red Cross. The funds obtained from credit card theft of an employee the United States, Homeland Security named Edmund H. Tupay.
Other receipts are funds from the credit card belongs to Allen Barr, an employee who recently retired from the Texas Department of Banking, of 200 U.S. dollars which are also distributed to the Red Cross.
However, the interesting fact is the reason Anonymous Stratfor website can attack and steal customer data is due to Stratfor does not encrypt customer data they have. In fact, a global intelligence company Stratfor is a focus to help clients on data security. It is pretty embarrassing for the company amounted to Stratfor.
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I wonder who added Stratfor piracy to the Stratfor’s profile on Wikipedia. This company profile has been updated with the latest information about credit card hijacking and destruction of 200 GB of data.
Even inserted a quote from CNN that says that carelessness Stratfor does not encrypt data that is a big mistake for a security company. In Wikipedia also says that the credit card number was hijacked already number more than 13 thousand accounts.
Wikipedia also mentions that the hijacking of the credit card used for donations to various social activities, such as the Red Cross, the campaign “Save The Children”, and the CARE campaign.
However, Wikipedia also adds that Anonymous has written a press release stating that the perpetrators of piracy it is not the Anonymous group. As Media Source, Stratfor work with protected freedom of the press. This principle is also carried Anonymous so it is unlikely the perpetrators behind the hijacking is the group Anonymous