Anonymous takes credit for new cyber attack

[nsane.forums]

The hacker group Anonymous is the likely suspect in a new cyber attack on the security-based organization Stratfor. Credit card information was allegedly stolen as part of the attack.

Anonymous decided to have an end-of-year cyber attack blow out, according to some sources. Venture Beat reports that the notorious hacker group is the likely suspect in a new cyber attack on the Austin, Texas-based security firm Stratfor. The organization admitted on its Facebook page that on December 24 "an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card data of some of our members."

While it is sometimes hard to tell if a cyber attack on a group is in fact the work of Anonymous, this newest incident seems to be the real deal. The group's Twitter page posted a link to the Pastebin web site that claims to list Stratfor's secret clients. Stratfor has denied this claim, saying that the list that was posted was simply "a list of some of the members that have purchased our publications."

Anonymous claims to have 200 GB of data from Stratfor and says it will release more information from that database in the near future. It also says it will steal $1 million from the company's credit card accounts and give that money to a number of charitable groups such as American Red Cross, CARE and Save the Children. We are not sure if any of those groups would accept any donations if they knew it came from stolen credit cards.

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[Sonar]

It also says it will steal $1 million from the company's credit card accounts and give that money to a number of charitable groups such as American Red Cross, CARE and Save the Children. We are not sure if any of those groups would accept any donations if they knew it came from stolen credit cards.

They better hold up to there word! I personally will love them for this.

Ide accept the money - they have to be crazy not to. Save those kids lifes who needs it...

[Karlston]

They better hold up to there THEIR word! I personally will love them for this.

Ide I'D accept the money - they have to be crazy not to. Save those kids lifes LIVES who needs it...

The stolen money will of course be taken back off the charities, and rightly so.

And who will pay for the costs of this Anonymous idiocy, the charities and the banks' customers, that's who...

I wish those Anonymous cretins would go away, or at least engage their one collective brain cell before embarking on their crazy ill thought out schemes.

Or perhaps they'd consider doing something useful for the planet, like targeting spammers or child pornography sites...

[Sonar]

If your going to quote and correct me Im going to start to write in Binery "leave the chatroom games in the chatroom"

I find it a personal attack correcting some 1's spelling/typing some people do have problems.

back on track...

Hopefully the charities as stated in the post will not know its stolen money

Or perhaps they'd consider doing something useful for the planet, like targeting spammers or child pornography sites...

targeting those sites does not save a childs life.

[DKT27]

50,000 credit card numbers stolen in Stratfor cyber attack

A few days ago, Anonymous took credit for yet another cyber attack on a business. This time it was the private security service Stratfor that was the victim. However, unlike previous attacks by Anonymous and similar groups over the past year, this one actually resulted in credit card numbers being stolen from the company's servers.

Anonymous has already released a number of the files it has taken from Stratfor. Acccording to a report from the identity theft protection company Identity Finder, 50,277 credit card numbers were taken from Stratfor's servers, based on what Anonymous has leaked so far. 9,651 of those credit card numbers had not yet expired. The report also claims that 44,188 passwords were stolen from the server and Identity Finder says over 50 percent of those passwords could be easily cracked. Only 4.6 percent of those passwords would be considered "strong".

Anonymous has also taken a lot of emails from Stratfor's servers and claims in a Twitter message that the emails it plans to release will show that Stratfor "is not the 'harmless company' it tries to paint itself as." Stratfor says on its Facebook page it plans to start sending out emails to those who have been affected by the attack no later than Wednesday.

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[beer]

Lol i was just about to update 50k card numbers stolen story... DK27 you so fast..