Stratfor Hacked, 200GB Of Emails, Credit Cards Stolen, Client List Released, Includes MF Global, Rockefeller Foundation
This Christmas will not be a happy one for George Friedman (who incidentally was the focus of John Mauldin's latest book promotion email blast) and his Stratfor Global Intelligence service, because as of a few hours ago, hacking collective Anonymous disclosed that not only has it hacked the Stratfor website (since confirmed by Friedman himself), but has also obtained the full client list of over 4000 individuals and corporations, including their credit cards (which supposedly have been used to make $1 million in "donations"), as well as over 200 GB of email correspondence. And since the leaked client list is the who is who of intelligence, and capital management, including such names as Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller Foundation and, yep, MF Global, we are certain that not only Stratfor and its clients will be waiting with bated breath to see just what additional troves of information are unleashed, but virtually everyone else, in this very sensitive time from a geopolitical point of view. And incidentally, we can't help but notice that Anonymous may have finally ventured into the foreign relations arena. We can only assume, for now, that this is not a formal (or informal) statement of allegiance with any specific ideology as otherwise the wargames in the Straits of Hormuz may soon be very inappropriately named (or halfway so).
Chronology of releases from AnonymousIRC starting early this afternoon:
- #AnonSanta just told us: "Currently rm -rf'n targets and shredding logs" #LulzXmas #Antisec
- We just hear that #AnonSanta battle-sleigh plundered 200gb of emails and other booty before he started to deliver his presents. #LulzXmas
- From IRC: "** Are you all ready to witness the rm -rf /* of a major intelligence corporation, live on IRC and twitter?" #LulzXmas
- 5 minutes and counting. #AnonSanta won't disappoint you. Get on IRC now for the whole spirit of #LulzXmas.
- FUCK IT, HE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCKING THING SUCKS, HE'LL DO IT LIVE! | http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23anonops&server=irc.anonops.li | #LulzXmas
- A wild rm -rf /* appears: http://www.stratfor.com/ | #LulzXmas from #AnonSanta | #AntiSec plundered 200gb of their mails and more booty.
- #Stratfor #LulzXmas takedown mirrored forever: zone-h.org/mirror/id/1641…
- "You do realize how preposterous it is to suggest that #stratfor simply
shutdown completely for 2 days, right?" ~ Frank Ginac (IT manager) - Merry #LulzXmas to everyone http://imagebin.org/190224 Stratfor rooted. All your base are belong to us. <3 #Anonymous
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http://bit.ly/ulWECe | #Anonymous/#AntiSec Attack #STRATFOR | #LulzXmas #AntiSec
And the kicker:
- The private (and secret) client list of #Stratfor: http://pastebin.com/8MtFze0s | Not so private and secret anymore. #Antisec #LulzXmas
Anon promises that much more is coming:
- #Antisec has enough targets lined up to extend the fun fun fun of #LulzXmas throught the entire next week.
How the Stratfor site looked minutes after the hack:
Full letter from George Friemdan to clients as of an hour ago:
The full client list as released in a pastebin by Anonymous of all the alleged clients sorted by company name, can be found here. As this is merely an extracted column from a far larger database, we are confident much more very sensitive information, as the bulk of the companies are either in the intelligence or money management business, will be released shortly.
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happy chanukah....ha ha ha .......
Mazel Tov!
Now here's your Molotov!
And where is the cock's tail DV?
Between his legs right now if I was a betting man.
This is all a part of the unfolding pattern of disclosure. WHen everyoen is naked, suddenly the emperor does not look so bad anymore, eh?
Wishing everyone a deeply deliberative time.
ori
/fractal-animal-hypnotic/
Graced again by The Oracle of Calcutta.
TD: "Hows that working out for you?"
TD: "What?"
TD: "Being clever."
This is the best part:
"We have learned that Stratfor’s web site was hacked by an unauthorized party."
Do they otherwise authorize people to hack their website?
I am Chumbawamba.
Department of Redundancy Department
Yes they do. They're called security consultants.
Interestingly enough, it appears that one of the reasons why Anonymous was able to attack the website was because Stratfor neglected to encrypt the credit card and other personal information about its subscribers. This has BoingBoing blogger Rob Beschizza perplexed:
Worked for Sony, didn't it?
Let's be clear: ZH reprints Stratfor stories REGULARLY. Why? Because here on ZH, we too want to know where the war-drums are beating. Just two weeks ago, ZH reprinted Stratfor's US Navy positions map for the Gulf region. Frankly, I find that information to be very important -- And I'm not sure where else I (or Tyler) would get it.
I'm not sure why Anonymous felt the need to attack a private publication. But IMHO that is an attempt at limiting free speech -- which is ironically what Anonymous themselves stand for. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
And Tyler: You should clarify your position on this story. An attempt to attack a publication which is protected under the first amendment is not something that ZH has *any* business showing support for. For ZH too, this is hypocrisy. (Particularly when it's a publication that you regularly reprint maps and data from)
When Anonymous speaks -- we *hope* the media and the world at large will listen. But if Anonymous tries to silence other voices? i'm sorry: No. That's when Anonymous loses my support completely.
File this operation under "Lame". Anonymous just lost points in public opinion -- and that's not something they can afford to do.
I liked your post but don't fucking ask ZH to 'declare its position'.
You read
You learn.
You prepare in your own way.
Completely disagree. What I'm reading here seems to be support for a small gang of people to attack private property and attempt to limit free speech with which they disagree. (And why does ZH provide a link to the stolen data, exactly?)
While I may want Fox News to shut up, I do not under any circumstances advocate actually 'shutting them up'. That's a very slippery slope towards somewhere we do not want to go. What if some quasi-government organization decided to take down ZH because they disagreed with it? And what if they took user data?
IMHO -- Tyler needs to clarify ZH's posiiton on attacking publications and aggressively limiting freedom of speech. Because this move by Anonymous is bullshit.
Lol, butthurt
Having to provide a dictionary to explain your cleverness = fail
You might want to look up "blade" while you're at it.
Not that ad hominem argument with internet identity means anything, but thanks, further proves the point. Look up ad hominem yourself please, since you mind me putting the references.
Sigh. I believe it is you that doesn't understand what an ad hominem attack is. An ad hominem attack is an attempt to avoid the *actual* argument by attacking the arguer.
You haven't made an argument. If you can make intelligent responses other than "Lol butthurt" -- I'll actually respond to you.
Until then, I'll keep treating you like an unintelligent troll.
It is getting better and better, first time to internet?
Is that supposed to be an English sentence?
First time it is.
I thought the original remark was about our own governments attempts to smother our free speech and yada yada.
Boris,
Shut up.
Popo made some good points, whether or not you agree with them.
DavidC
Because it is already been made public. Why not repost already public stuff. It is not ZH's fault that Stratfor ignore the presence of encryption technology and the need for securing private data.
M3$$ w1th t3h b3$t....
That's like saying "It wasn't my fault she was dressed so sexy..."
I'm sure you have no idea in how many ways your argument fails legally. But suffice to say: Your argument = profound fail.
Oh wait... I just read your last sentence. I'm arguing with a 13 year old...
troll more carefully bro, on a long enough timeline it becomes obvious. and no, it wasn't anybody's fault she was dressed so sexy, you wouldn't be born if she wasn't. merry LulzXmas
Assuming a classical intellectual philosopher's name for avatar and then misspelling it: FAIL
Socrate is Socrates in French, t'as compris ?
Exposed myself.
:-)
Merry Xmas, dude!
Atempting to put a square peg, (freedow of speach issue), into a round hole,(this hack)? doesnt hold appear to hold water. Next.
Silly comment. In your magical corner of the universe this was not a politically motivated action?
As one of the Tyler's said above: "And incidentally, we can't help but notice that Anonymous may have finally ventured into the foreign relations arena."
If Anonymous is making political statements with aggressive actions -- you can't turn around and claim that this is just a "hack". It wasn't. You know that.
We,the people,are at war with these
institutions.I support all attempts
to expose,reveal,undermine their position.
They already spy on us 24/7,so lets
use their weapons against them,see
nothing wrong in that,it's called self defence.
We the people are at war with Stratfor? Uh... don't speak for me bro.
Yes, we the people are at war with the banking system, the oligarchy, the military industrial complex and a whole host of other baddies... But like our founding fathers, I believe that the press should be left out of the fray. For better or for worse, they need to be unfettered.
Naaaaahhhh. Stratfor has to be on the up-and-up, just look at the prime players, from Bloomberg on the 15th:
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?privcapId=11017435
And why Austin? Because that's where all the companies not related to CIA and .gov data-mining are located.
http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/for-austin-a-new-wave-of-data-centers-1739697.html
Hell, they've even got courses on how to do it:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dml/
What this may lead to is an eventual war between hacking groups. Not the traditional black hats versus white hats (white hats generally expose weaknesses so that their employer can try to fix it before a hacking occurs). Instead grey hats versus black hats. Another group with the expertise and knowledge to go after Anonymous beyond the scope of law enforcement as we know it. Hired guns in the new wild west.
a bit anal aren't we aptly named popo? otherwise known as rear-end.
It's not clear to me how ZH or Anonymous is "aggressively limiting freedom of speech". What am I missing?
Oh ya, sure...I'd hate to see someone remove a weapon from the hands of someone annihilating a large group of people.
Anyone thinking free speech exists in a meaningful way in the USA is wrong.
I'd give anonymous money if I could find them. God bless them all. Stop reading here if you don't understand or largely disagree with the editorial stance.
Any security industry enthusiastically supported by Bill O'Reilly and the Zionist pig Fox News owner needs to be taken down fast, soon, and often.
actually
there is quite the conumdrum here.
I myself admit to spending hours and hours in contemplation of the conumdrum,
why do TPTB allow ZH to continue to do all that it does?
Consider the fate of Wikileaks.certainly "they" could shut it down if they wished,
though it might take a little more than just a highly-paid duplicitous prostitute to do it ....
Come upo with your own answer, but don't post it here ....
Here's my answer: They're too busy reading ZH to shut it down.
FYHO
I really liked your last comment Popo. Good job in this latest comment too about pointing out how we should strive for a higher standard in defending the 1st Amendment. Here was my write up on it: http://ragingdebate.com/browse-articles/government-and-politics/stratfor-hacked-200gb-of-emails-credit-cards-stolen-client-list-released-includes-mf-global .
Sorry Tyler, if you want the power of the 1st Amendment you have to also become a standard-bearer of it. I am from one of the orphan generations, we are all dealing with demographic imbalance and how banking attempted a solution to it. Just a different method of attempting to force spending as ageing people stockpile ahead of decrepency when they can't produce. Blame is dumb, we should blame people from 1870 that their generation lived longer than the next one?
I read a bunch of the comments already, that Polizesta commentator sure is acting purposely provocative, what do you call those again? What Popo is trying to do is tell you to police yourself so the authorities don't have to.
ZH will have a tough time shedding its branding at some point but we are all left guessing if the branding will change, or such bright people will be motivated past just being on defense and do some problem solving, become part of society. That is genius that we are left guessing on intent. It actually hasn't or ever changed.
The branding here, Fight Club is about gleefully destroying the supply chains. In the movie, the glee of fighting and getting prepared were reserved for those that have polluted the supply chains, control them and making the world slums. The movie was to show how little respect these people had for themselves because society had ignored them for so long anyway that having something to lose wouldn't even register to begin with. The glee is about their own oppression coming to an end. It is dark and cryptic because how much the society suffers in the process is irrelevant. The theme is to attempt to reach leaders that you don't want to live in this world, similar to Clockwork Orange almost.
That right or wrong, those men owning and perverting the supply chains have to be taught lessons and that when all else fails to reach them that violence becomes the only answer.
Because of the branding, the service has a shelf life and it seems like many people have become anamored with the service but have forgotten or never understand what the theme of the branding was. Now, if it were me I would kill the Fight Club brand and keep the financial, hedging brand (domain name, ZH). Combining the two brands worked in 2008 for reasons that no longer do and this comment is already too long...
"...attempt to limit free speech ...."
Listen moron (Popo), did you happen to read the client list, halfwit?
Frist Capital, LLC (Billy Frist's company, AT&T, etc., almost all the many, many Rockefeller/Morgan/Mellon companies, all those companies making up the control element of the American Financial-Intelligence-Complex,......please, give me a frigging break!
These are all the sleazoids who have dismantled the American economy, crippled any possibility at any form of democracy, destroyed the tax base in America, and killed any and all "free speech" as they overwhelming control the media and their message!
"...attempt to limit free speech ...."
Listen moron (Popo), did you happen to read the client list, halfwit?
Frist Capital, LLC (Billy Frist's company, AT&T, etc., almost all the many, many Rockefeller/Morgan/Mellon companies, all those companies making up the control element of the American Financial-Intelligence-Complex,......please, give me a frigging break!
These are all the sleazoids who have dismantled the American economy, crippled any possibility at any form of democracy, destroyed the tax base in America, and killed any and all "free speech" as they overwhelming control the media and their message!
Fuck you, sockpuppet
Witty.
Apparently I bruised another unquestioning fanboy.
Please.
1) StartFor's intelligence is harvested independently from public sources,
it's the equivalent of stalking on google streetview and satellite imagery.
I don't see how ZH reprinting is any worse than a paid stratfor subscription,
and I don't see see any of this information as sensitive state secrets.
it's quality information and opinion, well researched and compiled, but
it's not seditious secret leakage.
2) If anything this highlights how it's impossible to be a one-man shop and
shows there is a need for a open-source pen-tested information business.
I respect George Friedman's opinions and find his analyses poignant and
perspicaceous, but it's been obvious he is no information security expert.
Cryptome and even ZH use PGP drop boxes, whereas Stratfor encrypts nada.
Even more telling, the full naval update maps were always available without a
subscription, simply by virtue of copying the thumbnal url and stripping the
suffix from it.
3) Lay off the Anonymous rhetoric. Like it's typonomic says it is anonymous,
so there's no guarantee that any consistency exists between different actions
or actors claiming kudos. This could just as easily be a a copycat group, a rogue
splinter cell, chinese hackers, or a flase flag by a government special interest
group pushing a big brother internet agenda. Anonymous is an aggregate of
many different hactivists each with their own ideals, goals, and rules of ethics.
until or unless there is ever a concerted and coherent unifying campaign on all
their part violating intel sites, there is no way you can pin one alleged action
on the movement as a whole. plus who knows, maybe Friedman was in it with
HB Gary and had it coming? we are spectators in the world of spook subterfuge.
the best we can hope for is to see a trend and make a buck. we're certainly not
the ones in the loop.
Archduke -- I hear you. But imho the fact that Stratfor gets their info from public sources isn't the issue. It's still a publication -- and the idea that you can silence voices through whatever means doesn't sit well with me -- and frankly it shouldn't sit well with anyone here, as we're all big fans of ZH (and ZH also gets info from public sources).
As to your third point. That's very true -- and it's hard to say whether or not this was in fact, "Anonymous" that did the hack. We may never know -- but IMHO this was definitely not their finest moment if it was.
and it's hard to say whether or not this was in fact, "Anonymous" that did the hack. "
Thing is that all it takes to be anonymous is to declare yourself anonymous. This looks far more like Lulzsec people. Who as they say "do it for the lulz"
Except that 'Anonymous' is claiming responsibility via its twitter feed, AnonymousIRC.
The few things I have seen by Stratfor were never really that groundbreaking. It was just fairly general stuff or based on analyzing info on teh web including foreign language publications. PRobably better than the lies the newsmedia spews but not earthshaking stuff that a fairly intelligent person could not figure out.
Who they should hack is the Rand Corp. They are really evil f***s.
Stratfor is just Semi-NeoConish.
Are you Frank Ginac?
Beyond hacking into Stratfor opinion/fact work, there's also the alleged fact that 'they' stole credit card info. That's a different animal altogether is it not?
As far as Strafor intelligence work goes, I've never subscribed and have only read what gets published here and there, apparently with consent. And that has uniformly been 'master of the obvious' stuff. Why anyone would feel compelled to subscribe escapes me. Perhaps what they say behind the (flimsy) for subscriber screen is better.
Apparently you've been living in a cave the last ten years or so, and are completely unaware of all the crimes perpetrated by those individuals on their client list????????????????
Ever heard of JPMorgan Chase? Bill Frist's company, HCA?? And persue the others, chump....
you're right, Popo.
this could be much worse for stratfor than for the hackers as it may expose friedman's sources.
apart from the prospect of rival poaching (tough luck), if it ever turns out that some of the
sources are passing any confidential info requiring clearance it would expose friedman to
espionage charges. that would be ironic. turning the insider info coterie to bite its own tail.
We no longer have a free market economy. This is a list of some of benefits of our crony capitalists system. These people trashed our rights when they bought our government. When votes matter more than money, the democracy is one that is failing, not everyone else's logic.
A list of subscribers is a meaningless gesture without a context that no "outsider" reader would be able to properly apply. Buried within that list would be the name and credit card number of one Tyler Durden, and probably several fronts for Iranian intelligence. If they hacked Ron Paul's list of subscribers they would probably uncover the names and email addresses of half of Obama's hatchet men, none of whom are likely to be chanting "End the Fed" anytime soon... Everyone in Washington keeps an eye on everyone else, throw in all the outsiders who get on in the game and there is too much background noise to distill meaningful intelligence from something as simple as a subscription list.
Far more useful would be a list of the names, positions, and home addresses of every legislator and legislative staffer on Capitol Hill- at least then readers could go online and connect and potential protest locations to specific legislative atrocities and the path they took to through the legislative labyrinth to become law.
Here's hoping for a better Christmas gift next year. Have a Safe and Merry Christmas.
You are missing the whole fucking point of what annonomous is doing cointel troll. The information is public now, wasn't before. Thats got fuck all to do with restricting freedom of speech.
I have always regarded Stratfor as an arm of Israeli intelligence - a Mossad subsidiary.
+-----It depends, just because it is a "private" organization does not make it sacrosanct. Who does Stratfor work for? How would you classify a "private" org that does work for the govt, various other entities such as goldman-sachs and other TPTB players. Is that still a "private" organization? That's why vairous other govt contractors are counted as private sector, but since all their bills are paid by doing work the the govt, are they really "private sector"? Many would consider the post office more private sector than Lockheed Martin.
Is it possible that the point of the article is to a) expose the possible ramifications of Anon's actions, and b) to show just how far reaching this breach goes? But also that it shows that Stratfor overlooked some important security measures such as encryption?
Oh no I'm being OUTED!! Went to the site before I knew about the attack, and some vicious bug jumped into my cptr. One of those "hire us to clean up your trojans, or we won't leave" type programs. Took about an hour to get rid of the thing. Foolish of anon to attack this site tho: w/o it, how will Iran be able to find out when US carrier battle groups are converging on the region. Tehran needs this info to pre-empt, close Straits, pound oil terminals. The TREASON GANG (sarc) at ZH should not applaud this attack.
Are you serious? You think iran needs statfor to locate giant carrier group formations? Really? If they need that then they obviously coulnt build a bomb since they cant locate goddamned giant naval formations floating towards them unless you believe these groups have top secret cloaking tech like the predator.
Win, Epic.
PS.Merry Christmas.....bitches!
Is there a list of emails posted somewhere?
This is quite lol. Show me all internal email of GS, SAC, CCP, or Soros and then I'll be interested. Hacking a two bit (lul) newsletter publisher is rank amateurism. Would not be surprised if it was a Stratfor false flag op to raise their profile, bc surely no one else is reading their trash
This is a reaction one sees a lot. Not wholly unfounded, but what good does it do? Let us take this moment to shift from criticism to action. One would have to believe that among the people who read ZH there are those with the requisite skills to liberate data. Perhaps there are some who are already sailing the seas. There are also those who read ZH who have access to the insides of the places of which you speak.
Now, I don't know anything about this stuff, but, just from reading this article, it seems the IRC is a meeting place. Maybe those who have physical access to the data or systems, and those who wish to see it liberated could find their way to this digital devil's lair in order to converse. VPN services purchased anonymously, connected to from some hijacked wifi. Maybe routed through TOR or even taking place on i2p. Maybe, just maybe, if the right people came together, lulz would ensue.
tl;dr - Project Mayhem bitchez
The odds are low that there is no overlap between ZH and Anonomous.
On a long enough timeline ZH and Anonymous overlap.
Are you suggesting that some members of ZeroHedge may be terrorists, and by affiliation, anyone who reads ZeroHedge is also a terrorist? Oh, goodie!! Maybe now that the National Defnse Authorization Act has been passed, the "government" will be able to round up all ZeroHedge posters based on your heresay, without an option for a fair trial. Thank god we are still a free country. The only problem is that when "government" finds out who the ZeroHedge members really are, they are going to have a lot of egg on their face.
Project Mayhem... The time is now... Amen...
what is the purpose of a place like stratfor anyway? spoon feed a bunch of bullshit to a willing and cooperative client base of like minded coffee and coolaid drinkers?
i subscribed to stratfor for several years after 9/11 and read a lot of what they published, but eventually i recognized them as neocon propagandists. they're good at truthiness, but i don't trust them.
+1000 fellas - I used to get the free email to see what the neocon spin was on incidents. Stratfor is a totally "in the bag" neo con operation for shills that want to sound intelligent when they call in to Hannity's show.
WTH, Hannity ain't the real thing? No tooth fairy? No Santa Claus? No nuthin?
(sarc off)
the point is not whether you believe in it. the point is if you believe that enough real decision makers believe in it.
and as these often come from the hawkish neocon persuasion, then there is value in seeing the trends they see.
Bingo. It is easily seen that sites like stratfor.com and debka.com are preaching to their respective choirs. The value in what they publish is being able to see the weekly sermon to the faithful and reading the schedule for the kool-aid flavor du jour.
Exactly. So what purpose does a "hack" like this - which really constitutes nothing of any signficance solve? Oh, my look at their important and signficant client list. They MUST be credible and accurate sources if these high powered institutions and companies subscribe. Right?
Well, I am .. err, was, subscribed. Guess anon did me a favor as I just canceled my visa card and thereby my subscription. I signed up out of curiosity, to see what real "intel" that you pay for was like, and it was like .. Yawn. [oh, and to sound intelligent in coolaid breaks] .The only fun part was where the US fleets were, but still can't figure how to use that to my advantage.
The real intel is here, and all those ZH links that our mate Tyler digs up. In fact, this piece gave me the heads up to can my visa. Before anon donated my miserable credit to wherever :0)
perhaps that guy thing of wanting to "sound intelligent in coolaid breaks" or, as JRandall mentions above "on Hannity" can be recognised as the passing along of gossip that serves the "neo-cons" and others - it's their spun storytales, and by repeating them over and over as "truths" a disservice to what might really be happening takes place.
this is NOT to criticize any individuals, but to maybe just acknowledge the times when passing on "their" gossip doesn't really help undermine their narratives. . .
Yep, the web is all about mindstreams of persuasion and herding sheeple.
Been bothering me for a while - why the US fleet movements. Like, who needs to know that don't already?
It's logistics intel for global escort agencies. lol
A screw up like that and raising profile don't go together for a company that seemingly specializes on intelligence and counter-intelligence. Next in line, George Friedman will probably write another 1000 words circular e-mail to esteemed clients to explain his views on how Anonymous is capable of clandestine work and should be treated much the same way as any foreign intelligence agency. Anon will probably retaliate with bursting in lulz and hacking Friedman's iPhone.
Anon delivers bitchezzzz
Or he says that Stratfor's work is so important that Anon fel tthe need to hack them.....
How should one raise its profile by exposing his own stupidity and lack of knowledge on securing private data?
+1
Super Secret source of info for spook wanna be's and they kept all their old emails on their servers? They sound like the ***king three stooges.
Time to regulate the internet........blah, blah National security............blah, blah War on Terror............blah, blah, blah................during this time of......... blah, blah blah, blah
+1... Correct analysis...
Anonymous is a Soros funded operation.
Do you have supporting information?
What kind of question is that?
He's consistent - he's never had supporting info for anything!