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AntiSec and Anonymous release 860,000 Accounts and 75,000 stolen Credit Cards from STRATFOR hack

Submitted by Josh Irwin on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 11:27

Here is a breaking news bit about hacking groups releasing hundreds of thousands of credit cards from government employees.

Although the details are sketchy at best, the group Anonymous appears to have been dissatisfied with the government's lack of response to their demand that Bradley Manning be given a Christmas Dinner.

Bradley Manning became well known in 2010 from his connection to the vast WikiLeaks data dump.

 

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Submitted by Lampie on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:49

So much for Information Security. If you can't trust a big security firm with your data, who can you trust?

Submitted by Dageambibiall on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:54

The problem with Anonymous is that anyone can claim to be Anonymous. Anyone, even corporations or governments can act as Anonymous.

Submitted by JaizeKayata on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 22:09

Are Anonymous really that good at hacking servers, or are the servers/websites they hack wide open and left vulnerable?

We run several web apps on our server, and a lot of information is stored in them. I wonder if that is a big security risk?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 16:38

If you aren't government, big business or military, then you've got nothing to worry about with Anonymous.

That doesn't really leave anyone safe...since they even hack personal information and credit cards.

That's the risk since there is no well defined organizational structure. Anyone can propose a target and if enough people agree then it's on.

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