Stratfor Offers ID Protection for Victims of Anonymous Hack - boydurnow1985

Stratfor, the global security intelligence firm that was hacked over the holiday weekend by Anonymous, is offering victims of the breach a year's worth of identity and fraud protective covering services for footloose.

In an e-mail to its customers, Stratfor said members who whitethorn wealthy person had their credit add-in numbers compromised by the attack on the company's computers will encounter protection and detection services from CSID free of charge.

Members unsure whether they've been affected by the breach stern check their status at a website provided away Dazzlepod.

Stratfor also noted in its correspondence that its website would stay offline as disunite of its ongoing investigation into the breach. "We expect this to take just about a week, but it might take longer," the company said.

According to an analysis of the break-in released by IdentityFinder, 50,277 charge plate numbers were clipped aside the data thieves, just to a higher degree 80 percent of them had already expired. The cyber-bandits also bagged 86,594 e-mail addresses, 27,537 phone numbers and 44,188 encrypted passwords — 50 percent of them easily crackable, according to IdentityFinder.

Also snatched in the attack were anywhere from 2.7 million to 3.3 million e-mails, which, according to nominal Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown, was the substantial reason behind the attempt. "Stratfor was not breached in order to obtain customer credit card numbers, which the hackers in question could not experience expected to be as easily obtainable as they were," he explained in a communiqué posted to Pastebin. "Rather, the operation was pursued in parliamentary law to obtain the 2.7 billion e-mails that exist on the steadfast's servers."

According to Brown, those e-mails contain tell of a conspiracy by the Justice Section, Trust of US and other parties to onrush and discredit WikiLeaks and other activist groups. What Anonymous will do with those electronic mail messages is still unknown, simply it is promising some "good news" connected the matter "in the next few days."

Following the interrupt-in, some other group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous disavowed the Stratfor break-in. So much apparent squabbling within Anonymous has been typical of the system, which has had a befuddled yr of operation.

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