In an e-mail to its customers, Stratfor said members who may have had their credit card numbers compromised by the attack on the company’s computers will receive protection and detection services from CSID free of charge.
Members unsure whether they’ve been affected by the breach can check their status at a website provided by Dazzlepod.
Stratfor also noted in its correspondence that its website would remain offline as part of its ongoing investigation into the breach. “We expect this to take approximately a week, but it might take longer,” the company said.
According to an analysis of the break-in released by IdentityFinder, 50,277 credit card numbers were clipped by the data thieves, but more than 80 percent of them had already expired. The cyber-bandits also bagged 86,594 e-mail addresses, 27,537 phone numbers and 44,188 encrypted passwords — 50 percent of them easily crackable, according to IdentityFinder.
According to Brown, those e-mails contain evidence of a conspiracy by the Justice Department, Bank of America and other parties to attack and discredit WikiLeaks and other activist groups. What Anonymous will do with those e-mail messages is still unknown, but it is promising some “good news” on the matter “in the next few days.”
Following the break-in, another group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous disavowed the Stratfor break-in. Such apparent squabbling within Anonymous has been typical of the organization, which has had a muddled year of operation.
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