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Srsly? @STRATFOR is claiming their Confidential Client List is safe from Anonymous?

Seeded on Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:36 PM EST
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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

By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld    Dec 26, 2011 8:47 AM

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.

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Pamela Drew

We should all feel sooo much safer knowing so many are employed to watch sooo much of ordinary people's daily lives. America can't help the 1.6 million children going hungry every night but have money for Wall Street to spy on Main Street with promises of protecting us from something worse than toxic profiteers?

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on a daily basis, out of an “anonymous industrial park in Virginia”, follows over 5 million tweets by users on the ground.

The ‘Open Source Center’, manned by a team the agency affectionately dubs the “vengeful librarians”, also trawls other social networking sites like Facebook, along with Internet chat rooms; all the way down to newspapers and anything that anyone can contribute to openly.

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:41 PM EST
Pamela Drew

What would happen if all the "protective services" applied to following tweets were applied to following corporate killers of toxic dumps and factory farm pollution?

Who benefits by ignoring time release genocide as people and ecosystems are dying from profits?

Over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released by industry into the nation's environment each year, including 72 million pounds of recognized carcinogens. Scorecard can give you a detailed report on chemicals being released from any of 20,000 industrial facilities, or a summary report for any area in the country.

http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/us-map.tcl

Almost two trillion pounds of animal waste are produced per year nationally. An increasing amount of this animal waste is produced by intensive livestock operations, which are really more factories than farms. Common animal waste treatment practices used by these livestock factories are often inadequate to protect our drinking water and environment, posing one of America's serious pollution problems.

http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/aw/

Superfund sites are the nation's worst toxic waste sites: 1,305 are scheduled for cleanup on the National Priorities List (NPL). About 11 million people in the U.S., including 3-4 million children, live within 1 mile of a federal Superfund site and confront potential public health risks. Scorecard profiles the risks these sites pose to public health and the environment. Scorecard ranks sites by how high they scored in EPA's Hazard Ranking System, and states and counties by number of Superfund sites. http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/land/

  • 4 votes
#1.1 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:49 PM EST
Pamela Drew

Seems the claims of un-hackable may have been timed like Dubbya's Mission Accomplished Iraq War. Anonymous opener in their own words via pastebin, the link will get the whole message. :~)

  1. Greetings Global Pirates,
    1. #AntiSec
  2. We truly hope that you’ve been enjoying the Lulzxmas festivities so far. The gifts that AnonSanta left under the LulzXmas tree are just the beginning. As we speak, his little helpers at the North Pole are readying his battle sleigh of lulz with more goodies to bring you LulzXmas joy all week long. Joy in the form of over $500,000 being expropriated from the bigshot clients of Stratfor. You didn’t think we’d let 2011 end without a BANG, did you?
  3. However, if you are one of the hundreds of thousands of customers of STRATFOR Global [Un]Intelligence, you probably woke up Christmas morning to find heaps of burning coal in your stocking. But don’t fret. Take comfort in the fact that at least you’re not George Friedman or any of the STRATFOR IT guys right now.

http://pastebin.com/q5kXd7Fd

  • 2 votes
#1.2 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:04 PM EST
Pamela Drew

From WIRED~

On Saturday, Antisec began posting credit card details of a few Stratfor customers on Internet Relay Chats. But that’s just the start of a much larger data dump, the group claims. Anonymous is planning to release much more information — up to 200 gigabytes worth, in parts throughout the week leading up to New Year’s Eve. That trove allegedly includes 860,000 usernames, emails, and md5-hashed passwords; data from 75,000 credit cards, including security codes used for no card present transactions; and over 2.5 million Stratfor emails, internal Stratfor documents from the company’s intranet, and support tickets from it.stratfor.com.

“Four servers were rooted and wiped,” said one participant in the attack, “Charred like ashes, just like what we plan on doing with their old crumbling world.”

Stratfor’s website is currently down. But on its Facebook page, the company admitted that “an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card data of some of our members. We have reason to believe that your personal and credit card data could have been included in the information that was illegally obtained and disclosed.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/antisec-hits-private-intel-firm-million-of-docs-allegedly-lifted/

  • 2 votes
#1.3 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:25 AM EST
renee219-2390107

I'd be curious Pamela about how someone might make a suggestion to Anonymous about some possible places to hack. I mean I have been reading a little about the many off shore banking and tax havens. If some of the truly unethical if not outright illegal practices of the richest people in the world were exposed to the masses what change in business as usual might that not inspire the vast majority to demand?

  • 3 votes
#1.4 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:10 PM EST
Pamela Drew

My best suggestion to kinda connect with banking minded folks with anonymous flair would be to start at Twitter with @OpESR http://twitter.com/#!/Op_ESR That's Operation Empire State Rebellion, about outing the FED's private cartel & all things corrupt bankish are welcome.

Read a bit OpESR has A99 forums & chats & hashtags like #Banksters #GIABO ~ Global Insurrection Against Banking Oligarchy? not swearing to that, probly got more than a word of that acronym wrong but hashtag is perfect, go me! :~) Lots of stuff can also just get tweeted with the hashtags & the folks who watch for it can pass it along & if you add @PamelaDrew more n happy to RT dirty Bankster info too! :~)

  • 2 votes
#1.5 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:53 PM EST
renee219-2390107

Thanks! I will look into it! Seriously if you are at all interested in it one really good read is "Treasure Islands" by Nicholas Shaxton. Fairly quick read and extremely enlightening!

  • 2 votes
#1.6 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:16 PM EST
Pamela Drew

Fantastic suggestion Treasure Islands & Shaxton fab read even beyond the book. Discovered him a few years back along with John Perkins~ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man a fab insider view of evil debt scam of development banking! When you start to realize how much corporate crime is public information it blows you mind to know how much more corrupt Washington is that your worst assumptions, eh?

  • 3 votes
#1.7 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:20 PM EST
renee219-2390107

Thanks Pamela I wasn't aware of those sites, will be checking those out too!

  • 2 votes
#1.8 - Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:37 PM EST
Pamela Drew

My pleasure, thank you, it's by sharing we all learn & I'm afraid I forget more than I remember, so always nice to revisit the sources who do help us to know how this corrupt system of ours is rigged!

  • 2 votes
#1.9 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:38 AM EST
renee219-2390107

Here is another link you might be interested in concerning Monsanto

capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=58601501

  • 2 votes
#1.10 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:30 AM EST
Pamela Drew

Nice find renee, Don Huber is a whistleblower & very key in providing evidence of cancer like damage to the soil microbes, interesting that Federal Agencies tasked with consumer protection don't listen to their scientists just the corporate appointees using the revolving door between industry & oversight!!

  • 2 votes
#1.11 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:20 PM EST
Pamela Drew

Time to munch down on some shoe leather, yummm

In their own words Statfor youtube ~ Unless it's a clever lulz piece in which case, I still love it!

I'm Fred Burton, Stratfor's Vice President of Intelligence. As you may know by now, an unauthorized party illegally obtained and disclosed personal information and related credit card data of some of our members.

As a result, we have arranged for all Stratfor members to receive 1 year of free identity protection coverage from CSID, a leading provider of global identity protection.

If you've used a credit card to purchase a Stratfor membership you will be receiving an email from Stratfor with details on how to access CSID's services. You can feel confident in disclosing information to CSID - it's the only identity protection company we are working with.

We will continue to update you as more details become available. Thank you.

http://www.facebook.com/stratfor

  • 3 votes
#1.12 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:24 PM EST
Pamela Drew

Didn't find this til now, not l33t nuf to keep up with anoners, but this catches the gist & more at link..

Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not have expected to be as easily obtainable as they were. Rather, the operation was pursued in order to obtain the 2.7 million e-mails that exist on the firm’s servers. This wealth of data includes correspondence with untold thousands of contacts who have spoken to Stratfor’s employees off the record over more than a decade.

Many of those contacts work for major corporations within the intelligence and military contracting sectors, government agencies, and other institutions for which Anonymous and associated parties have developed an interest since February of 2011, when another hack against the intelligence contractor/security firm HBGary revealed, among many other things, a widespread conspiracy by the Justice Department, Bank of America, and other parties to attack and discredit Wikileaks and other activist groups.

Since that time, many of us in the movement have dedicated our lives to investigating this state-corporate alliance against the free information movement. For this and other reasons, operations have been conducted against Booz Allen Hamilton, Unveillance, NATO, and other relevant institutions. The bulk of what we’ve uncovered thus far may be reviewed at a wiki maintained by my group Project PM, echelon2.org.

http://anoncentral.org/2011/12/on-stratfor/

  • 2 votes
#1.13 - Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:40 PM EST
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ffeineandsugar

Good seed, Pamela - it's amazing how many people think that the electronic frontier is a safe haven, both from the governmental and corporate sectors. May the lulz continue, I say!

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 3:08 PM EST
Pamela Drew

ffeineandsugar...May the lulz continue, I say!

Wonderful wish for the New Year, transparency & accountability by every means possible, lulz included! :~)

  • 3 votes
#2.1 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:00 PM EST
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sammy sezso

Nice seed, but it is controversial even within Anonymous! Some do not approve of this hack for very just reasons. The individual hacker has not made themselves public yet.

Emergency Christmas Anonymous Press Release
-------------------------------------------
12/25/2011

THE STRATFOR HACK IS NOT THE WORK OF ANONYMOUS

Stratfor is an open source intelligence agency, publishing daily reports on data collected from the open internet. Hackers claiming to be Anonymous have distorted this truth in order to further their hidden agenda, and some Anons have taken the bait.

The leaked client list represents subscribers to a daily publication which is the primary service of Stratfor. Stratfor analysts are widely considered to be extremely unbiased. Anonymous does not attack media sources. In this excerpt from Time, there is a brief description of how Stratfor analysts uncovered a possible US backed coup in Iraq preceding the US invasion.

"In the past month Stratfor has drawn attention to a carefully assembled open-source report that asserted that last month's attack on Iraq wasn't intended just to punish Saddam Hussein for blowing off U.N. weapons inspectors. By sorting through thousands of pieces of publicly available data--from Middle East newspapers to Iraqi-dissident news--Stratfor analysts developed a theory that the attacks were actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup. In two striking, contrarian intelligence briefs released on the Internet on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, Stratfor argued that Saddam's lightning restructuring of the Iraqi military, followed by executions of the army's Third Corps commanders, was evidence that the coup had been suppressed. Predictably, U.S. officials said the report was wrong."

Stratfor has been purposefully misrepresented by these so-called Anons and portrayed in false light as a company which engages in activity similar to HBGary. Sabu and his crew are nothing more than opportunistic attention whores who are possibly agent provocateurs. As a media source, Stratfor's work is protected by the freedom of press, a principle which Anonymous values greatly.

This hack is most definitely not the work of Anonymous.

We are Anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

http://pastebin.com/8yrwyNkt

Apparently it is up to you (the reader) to decide on who hacked Stratfor! Whoever it was, they are good! None of the information was encrypted, including the cc/cvs numbers! Really poor security, considering what they do! Maybe they can all sit around and think of a new way to secure their servers! ;)

This is one of the problems with having a loosely organized leaderless collective. Some individuals will eventually go and do something that the others don't really support, but cannot stop. We can't put the bullet back in the gun!

Expect to see much more of this sort of thing to happen in the near future!

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:53 PM EST
Pamela Drew

sammy sezso...This is one of the problems with having a loosely organized leaderless collective. Some individuals will eventually go and do something that the others don't really support, but cannot stop. We can't put the bullet back in the gun!

Expect to see much more of this sort of thing to happen in the near future!

Thanks for the update and insight, l33t skilz aren't my area by a long shot & nice to be hip by proxy.

It's true we should expect more events; the root problem is a pervasive Police State and those who spy on the public in the name of Security are tempting targets to folks who prefer transparency and freedom!

The hactivism is a reaction to conditions established by corrupt regimes. For me it doesn't matter whether it is a member of Anonymous or lone hacktivist because the line is drawn between the Military Industrial Complex and the 99.9% suppressed by their power.

When the majority benefit from exposing the lies of the ring of profiteers hiding behind security claims all humanity is better for it regardless of what specific individuals or motives were responsible. If I had cyberskills I would have been in Monsanto's feeding study database years ago, not because I want to break the law, but because secrets protect their keepers & killers should have the evidence of their crimes in the light of day not protected by a convoluted system of corporate fascism.

  • 4 votes
#3.1 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:36 PM EST
sammy sezso

Well whoever hacked stratfor has been busy, busy, busy!

I just seeded an article about specialforces.com getting hacked!

They mention the stratfor hack in their pastebin, I have that in the comments already.

This is all in support of Lulzxmas which I believe is part of Op esr. There are so many Op's going on even I get confused sometimes!

When Occupy starts back up this spring we'll be armed with a boatload of new information!

I believe that Monsanto is on their list already, so it's just a matter of time until that hack comes up! Everyone will get their turn to be hit in due time.

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:13 PM EST
Pamela Drew

May all the ubercyber angels have safe travels and fab karma for sharing far more than leaks, but a new foundation that turbocharged social connectivity and pivotal in facing globalist "harmonization"

The path of truth is a lot like running water, trickling and gushing, branching around and under until the collective force becomes a flood. What matters most is the collective balance of powers between the few too evil and the many too needy, every drop of collective energy and enlightenment is perfect!!

I clipped your article to my column and noticed you don't use a picture because mine always do and it stood out. You should think about it, a nicer look in groups and pictures push the ugly ads out of the way. Its super easy & especially anons have lots of images easy to credit correctly with Anonymous, eh? lol :~)

  • 3 votes
#3.3 - Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:05 AM EST
sammy sezso

I clipped your article to my column and noticed you don't use a picture because mine always do and it stood out. You should think about it, a nicer look in groups and pictures push the ugly ads out of the way.

But there is a picture in the article! Not sure why it doesn't show up for you. When I use bigger pictures, it just pushes the add somewhere lower on the page or simply resizes the picture to fit. Oh well, as long as it stands out! Thanks for clipping it.

  • 4 votes
#3.4 - Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:49 PM EST
Pamela Drew

"tis no matter the picture appears for you and not me, electronic devices behave oddly in my hands and lucky my preference is for artisan tools anyway. My pleasure for the clipping, glad to have you here! :~)

  • 3 votes
#3.5 - Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:46 PM EST
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