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…
Category: Hack
Stratfor updates those affected: will be offering free credit monitoring services and will be boosting security
The following was provided to DataBreaches.net by one of the recipients: From: “STRATFOR” Date: December 25, 2011 3:49:06 PM MST To: [redacted] Subject: Update on Security Issues Reply-To: “STRATFOR” View on Mobile Phone | Read the online version. Dear Stratfor Member, On December 24th an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card…
Stratfor’s privacy policy
I was stunned to read that credit card numbers were stored in clear text on Stratfor’s servers. So I pulled up a cached copy of their Privacy Policy as it appeared on December 19th: Privacy Policy STRATFOR Enterprises LLC , publisher of STRATFOR, and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as “STRATFOR”) are committed to…
Office of the New York City Public Advocate Hacked
Okay, this is bad. So bad that if it had been published before I wrote my “worst breaches of 2011” post, it would have probably made the list. The Office of the New York City Public advocate was hacked and the entire database appears to have been dumped, including thousands of pages of highly personal…
Stratfor.com hacked: 200GB e-mail, tens of thousands of credit card numbers stolen from global intelligence firm (Update7)
Looks like Anonymous/#AntiSec massively hacked Stratfor, while mocking statements the firm had made. The hackers also dumped what may be their corporate subscribers list. In a tweet earlier today, @anonymousSabu wrote: stratfor.com “global intelligence” company owned and rm’d. Go to it now. See the defacement. Over 90k CCs from LEAs leaked. OUCH I have not yet…
Cn: Rumor: Renren Suffers Data Breach (UPDATED with Renren’s denial of any breach_
Rumors continue to circulate that Chinese social networking site Renren has been compromised, but there’s no confirmation at this time. Here’s another report: Passwords for 4.76 mln accounts with Chinese SNS site Renren have reportedly been leaked online. In response to the news, Renren has notified users said to be affected with instructions on how…