The hacking group “AntiSec” part of the larger group Anonymous has released even more information on officials and former officials that subscribe to Strafor. Stratfor provides clients information on national and international affairs.
Among the release 75,000 released names, include former U.S. VP Dan Quayle and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Data included in the disclosure included names, addresses and credit card numbers. This brings the total of 860,000 subscribers who’s information has been compromised.
The first word of the initial postings was broke by the Los Angeles Times. One cyber security expert told the paper that personal and business information for thousands of military personnel, law enforcement officials and intelligence officials was part of the customer information that was stolen when the Austin, Tx. company’s website was attack.
The attack was discovered on Christmas Day, and it’s website was shutdown.
According to John Bumgarner, who is an independent analyst asked to analyze the release for U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, “The exposure is HUGE. We can assume that foreign intelligence service has already taken advantage of this information.”
Bumgarner said the Stratfor data included e-mail addresses for about 19,000 members of the military, as well as 212 e-mail addresses associated with the FBI, 71 from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, 29 from the National Security Agency and 24 from the CIA.
Among the information was included 2.7 million emails, the hack was part of what Antisec and Anonymous called LulzXmas. Using information gathered it appears they group has been making donations to many charities among them the Red Cross.
Hacktivism appears to be on the rise, with the group Anonymous at the forefront.
According to the LATimes report AntiSec said it hacked Stratfor, in part, to demonstrate the service’s pooer security.
Sources: LA Times, Statesman, UPI, SecurityWatch, Pastebin, Dailydot