Stratfor Customers Can See If Anonymous Hacked Their Info on This Website
- Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:08pm by
Liz Klimas
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Customers of the global intelligence firm Stratfor, which was hacked by Anonymous over the weekend, can find out if their information could be compromised with a new website by Dazzlepod.
PC World reports that the Malaysia-based company has created a searchable database (see the website here) and if you’re email pops up, it recommends changing your password immediately. According to PC World, Dazzlepod has created similar databases after hackers have stolen information like this in the past.
The Stratfor website has been “undergoing maintenance” since the hack on Sunday. Anonymous stole email addresses and credit card information of Stratfor’s clients, which included the U.S. Army, Air Force, Miami Police Department as well as banks and other law enforcement agencies.
A second round of information has been released from SpecialForces.com, according to PC World. Anonymous reportedly attacked this website because of its involvement with “military and law enforcement affiliated individuals.” PC World goes on to state that the information, which included 14,000 passwords and 8,000 credit card numbers, had been hacked a few months ago but is only just now being released.
PC World reports that some of Stratfor’s customers were found speaking out against Anonymous, which Stratfor issued a statement suggesting they stop for their own protection:
”[I]n order to protect yourselves, we recommend taking security precautions when speaking out on Facebook or abstaining from it altogether,” it said on its Facebook page.
While some unauthorized credit card transactions were reported and the money was reportedly used to make donations, PC World states that Anonymous claims it was really the email addresses from the “No. 1 source for global intelligence” they were after.
According to CNET, Identity Finder, which helps in cases of data loss and identity theft, released a report that stated the email addresses from A through M names were published by the faction of Anonymous, AntiSec, with the rest expected to be released soon. The report states that more than 50,000 credit card account numbers were stolen along with more than 86,500 emails and 44,000 encrypted password that have the potential to be hacked.
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heavyduty
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 7:05pmIf they are ever caught then the law should hold them responsible for all the damages done to the private citizens. They are stupid if they think that they are doing something good.
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 1:37pmI received the notice from Stratfor. I searched and I’m not there but I have never contributed.
The e-mail addresses are not in alphabetical order. You need to scroll through them but there aren’t too many to do so.
Entire e-mail addresses are now shown! So you do need to check!
Click on the “clear” box, enter only the first few letters of your e-mail address…
then scroll through the similiar e-mail addresses listed to see if yours is there.
Good luck.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:37amI know the truth of what is going on “Stop Using Facebook”
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 5:28amI guess it doesn’t matter anymore we are all infected because we are blind.
FACEBOOK the crack for the geeks and insecure
How long can you go without logging into facebook ?
Report Post »empatreides
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:29amAnonymous is a bunch of cowards and they obviously don’t have a very healthy
Report Post »Imagination. Go ahead, hack me. No seriously, I fing dare you cowards. I’d love to
Meet you so I can beat you silly. Ok that’s what I have to say about them.
daveposh
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 8:30pmThanks! My email is in the list :-(
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:58pmYes Dave we know. We’ve been watching you for a long time now.
Report Post »Voteman
Posted on December 29, 2011 at 11:09amLMAO Thanks….
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:40pmHI Liz!!!! :-)
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