Economic Research: Stratfor Client List

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Stratfor Client List

PC World - The damage from a weekend data breach at a think tank on international security issues appears to have been inflated by the assault's perpetrators, the hacker collective known as Anonymous.After Anonymous ransacked think tank Stratfor's computers and stole away thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information, it claimed to have also clipped the company's confidential client list. That list contains sensitive information about Stratfor's high- profile clients, such as Apple, the U.S. Air Force, and the Miami Police Department.Stratfor adds that it had hired an identity theft and monitoring service to assist its members affected by the data breach. Further details on those services will be released to affected members later this week, it says.On Monday morning, Stratfor's website was offline. Visitors to the location are being greeted to an "undergoing maintenance" screen.