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Anonymous Supporter Sends Occupy Protest Calendar to Stratfor Subscribers

When Stratfor was hacked last Christmas, Anonymous publicly made available the entire subscriber email database. It turns out that someone put that massive list of emails to good use and sent the owners of the addresses the schedule for Occupy protests planned for later this year. According to City Security and Resi...

6 April 2012
08:44 GMT

LulzSec Hackers Arrested, Ratted Out by Sabu

The hacking scene received a major blow yesterday when authorities revealed that five respected hackers were charged, a sixth pleading guilty to computer crimes and other accusations. The shock was even bigger when everyone learned that one of the coordinators of many operations, the hacker known as Sabu, had been ...

7 March 2012
03:35 GMT

WikiLeaks to Publish Data Obtained by Anonymous from Stratfor

In the past period, a number of 25 media outlets worldwide analyzed the gigabytes of data obtained by WikiLeaks from Stratfor, allegedly with the aid of Anonymous hackers. Now WikiLeaks plans on publishing all the data online under the name of The Global Intelligence Files. According to a press release from WikiLeak...

27 February 2012
04:56 GMT

Stratfor Faces Lawsuit for Failing to Secure Customer Data

Even though Stratfor took a lot of measures to prevent any misuse of the information Anonymous hackers obtained from them as a result of the hacking operations from December 2011, some of their customers are not content and they filed a lawsuit against the organization demanding more than $50 million (35 million EUR)...

8 February 2012
07:21 GMT

Stratfor Worked with Authorities Against ‘Occupy’, Anonymous Leaks Show

An activist organization called Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is accusing both Stratfor and Texas law enforcement representatives of violating their constitutional rights by spying on their movement and infiltrating the Occupy protest to gather information. While the massive quantity of information leaked by Anonymous...

27 January 2012
10:56 GMT

Stratfor to Anonymous: The Attempt to Silence Us Failed

Stratfor, a company that provides geopolitical analysis and which has been the latest major target of Anonymous hackers, is back online after a month during which it tried to rebuild and secure its infrastructure. The organization’s chief executive, George Friedman, wrote a message to Stratfor’s customer...

12 January 2012
02:59 GMT

UK, US Officials and NATO Advisers Exposed After Stratfor Hack

The latest information regarding the hacking operation Anonymous launched against Stratfor reveals that sensitive data belonging to US and British officials, some of which employed in highly sensitive areas, ended up in the hands of the cybercriminals. According to The Guardian, email addresses and encrypted passwo...

9 January 2012
07:14 GMT

Stratfor Warns of Phishing Emails Targeting Customers

While investigating the massive data breach they had suffered, Stratfor representatives were made aware of some emails allegedly from the company’s CEO George Friedman, urging recipients to provide personal information. It seems that the email comes with a malicious attachment that requests sensitive informati...

9 January 2012
03:55 GMT

Stratfor: Private Clients List Not Disclosed by Anonymous

On Christmas eve we learned that Anonymous managed to breach the systems belonging to private intelligence company Stratfor, obtaining a few hundred gigabytes of information, including the organization’s A client list. George Friedman, Stratfor’s CEO, came forward with a statement to deny this. “We...

28 December 2011
08:03 GMT


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