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How about a serious thread today for a change...

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Anonymous is in over it's head again.

This time they've picked on STRATFOR, a private (but powerful) strategic Defense intelligence company (thinktank) who has been cited by media such as CNN, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and the BBC as an authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues. Barron's once referred to it as "The Shadow CIA". Many of their clients are seriously heavy hitters, who are normally not made public.

Well Anon just made a large chunk of them public, and even more, made their entire user databases public, including credit card numbers!

Further, they stole $1 million from those credit cards and sent that money to the red cross, Save the Children and Care charities.

D'oh!

Interestingly enough, Stratfor's website is still down now after 6 friggin Days!

BBC News - Hacked Stratfor security think tank keeps site offline

Apparently they grabbed Statfor's entire user database on Christmas Eve. (Although stratfor says those names are only new subscribers.) I've heard minor rumblings about this since that day, but then after anonymous released the A-M section of their hack The identity theft prevention service Identity Finder has carried out its own analysis of details posted online about hacked clients...

It suggested that the attack netted:

9,651 unexpired credit card numbers
47,680 unique email addresses
25,680 unique telephone numbers
44,188 encrypted passwords of which roughly half could be "easily cracked"

This list is expected to grow if the hackers publish details of the N to Z list.
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In an eye-opening article at RT, Anonymous' purpose has been revealed... They weren't there for money; but the info in those emails:

While the investigation opens up, operatives with Anonymous have credited themselves for the attack, a campaign waged under its Antisec campaign that targets mainstream and allegedly corrupt corporations and exposes them for their lack of online protection. Anonymous op Barrett Brown wrote on the web earlier this week that, “among many other things, a widespread conspiracy by the Justice Department, Bank of America and other parties to attack and discredit WikiLeaks and other activist groups” helped draw the hacktivists towards disrupting Stratfor. As a result of the hack, he said the data obtained “includes correspondence with untold thousands of contacts who have spoken to Stratfor's employees off the record over more than a decade.”

“The Stratfor operation may yield the most revelatory trove of information ever seized by Anonymous,” Brown added in a tweet on Christmas Eve.

Brown said to RT this week that subscribers to Stratfor’s emails should not be concerned over the hack, but rather “It is any of their past email correspondents who might have revealed information that could come back to haunt them who should be concerned for their reputations in such cases, as they might be shown to be culpable for anything that negatively affects the public.”

To the Daily Mail, Brown adds that the emails could “provide the smoking gun for a number of crimes of extraordinary importance.”
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So they went fishing, and their net is seriously heavy... But they don't seem to know what they have caught yet.

If it's small-time stuff? No biggie.

If it's the next 9/11 or other type of conspiracy? Then I'd bet those anonymous folks have probably already breathed their last breaths.
 


lukep said:
How about a serious thread today for a change...

galbraith-robert-reuters.n.jpg


Anonymous is in over it's head again.

This time they've picked on STRATFOR, a private (but powerful) strategic Defense intelligence company (thinktank) who has been cited by media such as CNN, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and the BBC as an authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues. Barron's once referred to it as "The Shadow CIA". Many of their clients are seriously heavy hitters, who are normally not made public.

Well Anon just made a large chunk of them public, and even more, made their entire user databases public, including credit card numbers!

Further, they stole $1 million from those credit cards and sent that money to the red cross, Save the Children and Care charities.

D'oh!

Interestingly enough, Stratfor's website is still down now after 6 friggin Days!

BBC News - Hacked Stratfor security think tank keeps site offline

Apparently they grabbed Statfor's entire user database on Christmas Eve. (Although stratfor says those names are only new subscribers.) I've heard minor rumblings about this since that day, but then after anonymous released the A-M section of their hack The identity theft prevention service Identity Finder has carried out its own analysis of details posted online about hacked clients...




In an eye-opening article at RT, Anonymous' purpose has been revealed... They weren't there for money; but the info in those emails:



So they went fishing, and their net is seriously heavy... But they don't seem to know what they have caught yet.

If it's small-time stuff? No biggie.

If it's the next 9/11 or other type of conspiracy? Then I'd bet those anonymous folks have probably already breathed their last breaths.
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tl;dr
 
On a more serious note... Good for them. More of this shit needs to be brought to light. More WikiLeaks, more hax0ring, more whatever. The corrupt motherfuckers with the real power won't have many more places to scatter when the light gets shined on them (except Wyoming )
 
Interesting enough I always thought of Stratfor as an information clearing house in the world event sector. What's going on where... Not creating or influencing events.

Also: There is a pastbin from Anonymous saying it wasn't us but someone is using our name.... Press Release: Stratfor hack NOT Anonymous - Pastebin.com

Check Pastbin for all of the stuff they/or someone released.

They just dumped 860,000 email address from ANYONE that has EVER been on their email list. Signed up with them around 2001 and was on their free list for a time (they had interesting commentary on the Iraq/Afghanistan situation) but unsubscribed about 2005. Yup my name is in the list that was released.

Thank god I was never a paying member.
 
Gertex said:
Yup my name is in the list that was released.
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Somehow they stopped sending me newsletters in 2010. Very odd, but the content was in general not much different than any foreign affairs magazine. Jane or Debka appear much more "knowledgeable".
 
Where are the people said anonymous are a bunch of kids who can't hack anything in the other threads?

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WickFlick said:
Somehow they stopped sending me newsletters in 2010. Very odd, but the content was in general not much different than any foreign affairs magazine. Jane or Debka appear much more "knowledgeable".
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Yes on Jane - Debka is WAY out there in my opinion. Stratfor got to far out as well in my opinon. Which is why I unsubscribed (Plus - they wanted money!)
 
barman said:
On a more serious note... Good for them. More of this shit needs to be brought to light. More WikiLeaks, more hax0ring, more whatever. The corrupt motherfuckers with the real power won't have many more places to scatter when the light gets shined on them (except Wyoming )
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^ This. It's no wonder shit like NDAA and SOPA are being pushed through. It's only a matter of time.
 
-joe- said:
I.e. it wasn't moot. What's up with all these constant blanket statements referring to Anonymous (i.e. /b/) as some huge hacker group? The news has been doing it for a while.
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You mean like the Iowa election board moving their count to an undisclosed location because of threats by OWS and Anonymous?

We gotta face it guys, the problem with anonyminity is that the enemy can claim it too... And since our enemy (the MSM) has the mike, it's clear that more people are going to hear about the anonymous that the MSM wants us to know about, NOT the real anonymous.

The day Anon gets to the point where they can commandeer the signal between your computer and the monitor, THAT's the day when people are going to start hearing the truth.

....Assuming the MSM doesn't learn that trick too.
 
lukep said:
You mean like the Iowa election board moving their count to an undisclosed location because of threats by OWS and Anonymous?

We gotta face it guys, the problem with anonyminity is that the enemy can claim it too... And since our enemy (the MSM) has the mike, it's clear that more people are going to hear about the anonymous that the MSM wants us to know about, NOT the real anonymous.

The day Anon gets to the point where they can commandeer the signal between your computer and the monitor, THAT's the day when people are going to start hearing the truth.

....Assuming the MSM doesn't learn that trick too.
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The MSM kidnapped SEOMike? Fuck those assholes.
 
lukep said:
You mean like the Iowa election board moving their count to an undisclosed location because of threats by OWS and Anonymous?

We gotta face it guys, the problem with anonyminity is that the enemy can claim it too... And since our enemy (the MSM) has the mike, it's clear that more people are going to hear about the anonymous that the MSM wants us to know about, NOT the real anonymous.

The day Anon gets to the point where they can commandeer the signal between your computer and the monitor, THAT's the day when people are going to start hearing the truth.

....Assuming the MSM doesn't learn that trick too.
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Never heard of that one, but I'll take your word for it. It's very rare that /b/ actually does anything these days though. Generally, it's the media lumping all hacktivist groups into one. Lulzsec for example are often referred to by the media as Anonymous.
 
Hmm...

Faceless, nebulous enemy who can't be traced? Check
Threat that the general public doesn't really understand? Check
Enemy that can never be fully defeated by its very nature? Check

Sounds like Anonymous are shaping up to be the next Global Boogeyman that the Government uses to justify whatever restrictions on your liberty they wish.

Don't be surprised if there's a massive "cyberattack" in the near future causing huge physical (power station, hospital) or financial ( big savings bank ) damage to the general public.

Just enough to cause outrage and demands (by the press) that "something be done", and then the Great Internet Lockdown can begin in earnest.
 
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amateursurgeon said:
Sounds like Anonymous are shaping up to be the next Global Boogeyman that the Government uses to justify whatever restrictions on your liberty they wish.

Don't be surprised if there's a massive "cyberattack" in the near future causing huge physical (power station, hospital) or financial ( big savings bank ) damage to the general public.

Just enough to cause outrage and demands (by the press) that "something be done", and then the Great Internet Lockdown can begin in earnest.
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Thank Jeebus I wasn't the one to say this!

:censure::censure::censure::censure::censure:

You're OK though, at least for a while, because you're not in the US.

+Rep.
 
Actually what makes me really affraid is thinking about how long it will take until some smartass group of anonymous hackers find out about the millionaires sweet life, offshore bank accounts and the possibilities to monetize their hacking skills...

I'm not a fan of these hacker groups, no matter whom they hack or not. It's simply scaring the shit out of me what a threat this group of hackers is and how powerful they are. Hoping they don't abuse it for financial benefits...
 
JarredLv said:
LOL @ StratFor being some evil corporation worthy of targeting.
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actually stratfor was an excellent target from #antisec

http://ibhg35kgdvnb7jvw.onion/lulzxmas/stratfor_full.tar.gz
http://depositfiles.com/files/j87arfcpa
http://www.verzend.be/odmmqjn6320d/stratfor_full.tar.gz.html
http://www.wupload.com/file/2629492022
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O5P03RXK
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|8...|53875|R~E33E14C52C8795153D213502698C9141|0|0

if anyone wants to DL the email list.

If you look through the email list, a lot of .govs + .mil and interesting emails.
 
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