Zheng Yi reports: The registration details of about 40 million users of tianya.cn, a big social networking site, were found to have been leaked on Sunday, following last Thursday’s discovery that user information had been leaked from several other websites. According to Web users, tianya.cn was hacked and some 40 million users’ names and passwords…
Category: Breach Incidents
STRATFOR Hires “leading identity theft protection and monitoring service”
STRATFOR , George Friedman has made another statement via its facebook page that states a few different things. First of all they have stated they have acquired the help of a "Leading identify theft protection and monitoring service" for its clients and that no later then the 28th of this month will all its effected clients…
Stratfor’s privacy policy, “Your information is stored in limited access server”
After the recent attack on the intelligence giant STRATFOR, there has been a lot of research towards and about them, once piece from databreachs.net takes a look at a cached version of the privacy policy as of 19 Dec 2011. In this policy it states that they store all its clients information on Limited access server, which from what…
Another huge amount of stolen CC from STRATFOR dumped by Anonymous
content/images/gallery/random2/anonymous-lulzxmas-rooting-your-proud-pastebin-com_.png Well as the title suggests, another load of credit card information has made its way into the public with the help of anonymous hackers. this lot has been announced from the same account as before content/images/gallery/random2/anonymous-lulzxmas-rooting-your-proud-pastebin-com_.png For part one And the original hack And the most recent dump of accounts can be found linked from the pastebin dump. or…
Anonymous Hackers Donate To Various Places with STRATFORS Hacked Information
Well if you have not seen it already, you must of been hiding away some where as the overall news has been bigger then xmas. Yesterday American Intelligence company STRATFOR was hacked, defaced and shamed. From this there was said to be over 200gb of data that included emails, accounts and other information. AnonymousIRC twitter account announced the 2nd part…
What was Stratfor’s obligation to secure data and what might this breach cost them?
I thought it might be useful to post part of Texas law that may apply to Stratfor’s duty to protect subscriber data: Sec. 521.002. DEFINITIONS. (a) In this chapter: (1) “Personal identifying information” means information that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies an individual, including an individual’s: (A) name, social security number, date…