On December 24th, 2011 the global intelligence firm Stratfor was hacked by the group, Anonymous. At the time it was said that credit card data of their online sign ups and emails were putloined.
I did give them credit for stepping in front of this mess when it occurred. Here is the video response from Strator’s CEO that was posted shortly after the breach.
Yesterday, the whistleblower site Wikileaks began posting the emails from that breach.
From Wikileaks:
“[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control… This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase” – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.
More on this story from the BBC.
From BBC:
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has begun publishing the first of more than five million confidential emails from US-based security think tank Stratfor.
The group said the documents would reveal Stratfor’s “web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods”.
My only hope here being that Wikileaks exercises some judgement and scrubs names from the emails that they’re posting. Whatever the motivations of either side, this may very well result in people being killed.
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