Bold claims that others have eaten their words for on more than one occasion so we'll see in time if its more Military Industrial lame profiteer downed or something else.
Today @ PCWorld
Confidential Client List Safe from Anonymous, Says Hacker Target
The damage from a weekend data breach at a think tank on international security issues appears to have been inflated by the assault's perpetrators, the hacker collective known as Anonymous.
After Anonymous ransacked think tank Stratfor's computers and stole away thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information, it claimed to have also clipped the company's confidential client list. That list contains sensitive information about Stratfor's high profile clients, such as Apple, the U.S. Air Force, and the Miami Police Department.
However, Stratfor denies that Anonymous got the think tank's family jewels. "Contrary to this assertion the disclosure was merely a list of some of the members that have purchased our publications and does not comprise a list of individuals or entities that have a relationship with Stratfor beyond their purchase of our subscription-based publications," the firm says in an e-mail to its members dated December 25.
Stratfor adds that it had hired an identity theft and monitoring service to assist its members affected by the data breach. Further details on those services will be released to affected members later this week, it says.
On Monday morning, Stratfor's website was offline. Visitors to the location are being greeted to an "undergoing maintenance" screen.




