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Preliminary analysis of Stratfor data dump (updated)

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dissent

Identity Finder has analyzed some of the data released from the Stratfor hack: 50,277 unique credit card numbers, of which 9,651 are not expired 86,594 email addresses, of which 47,680 are unique 27,537 phone numbers, of which 25,680 are unique 44,188 encrypted passwords, of which roughly 50 percent could be easily cracked 73.7 percent of decrypted passwords…

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Stratfor updates those affected: will be offering free credit monitoring services and will be boosting security

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Stratfor’s privacy policy

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Office of the New York City Public Advocate Hacked

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Stratfor.com hacked: 200GB e-mail, tens of thousands of credit card numbers stolen from global intelligence firm (Update7)

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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UT: Provo School District system hacked

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dissent

Someone gained access to the district’s e-mail database and used it to send out about 3,200 emails to parents and some students. The e-mail contained a link to a survey about satisfaction with the district, but the district didn’t authorize sending it and they have no idea as yet who misused the database to send…

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