Anonymous boasted of stealing Stratfor's confidential client list

LONDON (AP) - Hackers loose movement of the "Anonymous" has claimed thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information, is headquartered in the U.S. security think tank Stratfor stolen client. Hacker said the goal is a Christmas donation to the funds stolen from the personal accounts, some of the victims confirmed with their unauthorized credit card transactions.

Stratfor anonymous boast theft of confidential client list, which includes physical, Apple's U.S. Air Force from Miami Police Department, more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords, and home address and mining.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Stratfor provides political, economic and military analysis to help customers reduce risk, according to the instructions on its YouTube page. Reporting and analysis, through the website, email, and video delivery, charges users. The company's main website under the banner is a saying, "site is currently under maintenance."

For companies and government agencies subscribe communication Stratfor proprietary information is not in any significant risk, however, registered a major threat to individual employees.

"Not so private and secret it?" Anonymous taunting messages on Twitter, Stratfor future attacks, but a goal on a long list of Christmas inspired assault began.

Anonymous said it has posted a list of clients is 200 gigabytes worth of stolen plunder Stratfor small pieces, and promised more leaks. It said it was able to get part of the credit card details, as Stratfor did not bother to encrypt them - an easily preventable errors, if true, any security-related companies will be a major embarrassment.

Stratfor's Fred Burton, vice president of intelligence, said the company had invaded their cooperation with law enforcement and investigation.

Stratfor has local protection, in order to prevent such attacks, he said.

"But I think living in this place unique in the world, once they watch you, or trying to attack you, it is very difficult to resist, hackers" Burton said.

Anonymous claims that after the release of Stratfor's client list is the time, tweeted an online name, phone number, email, address and credit card account details, encrypted link to the file.

"Not as you expected it? Fear not, with the pirates and Robin Hood, these are just" one, "read a message posted on the Internet to download a crack file information to encourage readers.

The attack was "just another in a string, we have seen, this year's large-scale violations in the past few years," Josh said, Saul, a New York-based database security software vendor application of the security company's chief technology officer.

He said, however, the company shared secret information, to get the threat assessment may be concerned with Stratfor between the information is anonymous claimed to have stolen 200 gigabytes of data.

, "Saul said:" If an attacker is walking such a great e-mail, there may be some information that they have a very juicy bits.

Dorrian, public affairs officer for the Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel said, "for obvious reasons," the Air Force will not discuss specific vulnerabilities, threats or response.

Air Force will continue to monitor the situation and continue to take appropriate action to protect Air Force networks and information, he said: "In an e-mail.

Miami police spokesman Sgt. Little Freddy Cruz said he could not confirm that the agency Stratfor is a client, he said he had not received any security breach involving the police department for information.

Anonymous also images online, it is recommended by the syndicate which stole credit card information to make a charitable donation receipt.

"Thank you! Defense Intelligence Agency," read the above image, seems to indicate that donated 250 yuan for a non-profit organization employees a summary of the text information display transaction.

A receipt - the American Red Cross - Alan Barr's name on it.

Austin, Texas, USA Barr, recently retired from the Texas State Banking Department, and said that he found on Friday, from his account has spent a total of 700. Barr, he spent more than a deal with Bank of cyber crime a decade, said the five transaction total.

"This is all the charities, the Red Cross, Care, Save the Children. Barr said," So, when the credit card company called my wife, she does not know if I just donate, who do not know, until and Reporters The Associated Press called Stratfor's computer was hacked to death, his information has been compromised.

"It makes me feel terrible, it makes my wife feel terrible, we had to close the account."

I wish you "Merry LulzXMas" - its stripped hacker group Lulz security nod - Anonymous posted on Twitter a link to a site containing an e-mail, phone number and credit card number of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees.

Employees, Cody Sultenfuss, said he had no details before the release of his warning.

"They took me no money," he told The Associated Press in a series of e-mail, which does not specify the amount. "I think" Why me? "I'm not rich."

But does not necessarily constitute a violation of credit card holders risk. A suspect of his or her card fraud on the card user can contact the credit card company disputed the allegations.

Stratfor member, Stratfor CEO George Friedman said in an e-mail signed, delivered to the AP's users, it hired a "leading identity theft protection and monitoring services" on behalf of the members of Stratfor, the impact of the attack. The company said Wednesday it will send another member of the affected e-mail service.

Stratfor recognize a "unauthorized parties" have to disclose personal information and credit card data, some of its members.

The company sent another email to the user earlier in the day said it had suspended its study, its website was hacked their servers and e-mail.

Hacker group, who use Twitter handle AnonymousAbu, a member of the claim, more than 90,000 people from law enforcement, intelligence community and the reporter's credit card - "like Fox / EXEC Account" news - hacking for "stealing one million U.S. dollars "and donations.

It is impossible to verify credit card details. Fox News excerpt Stratfor member list posted online, but the file appears in other media, including MSNBC and Al Jazeera English.

Anonymous warning that it has "enough to extend to the entire target lined up next week LulzXmas fun fun fun."

The team has previously claimed attacks on the credit card company Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., eBay Inc. PayPal and the Church of Scientology in the music industry and other groups responsible.

Born in Brazil, two-headed baby's health

Woman in Brazil gave birth to a two-headed boy and the doctor said, newborn health. Maria de nazare have decided to name right, share a heart, lung, liver, pelvis, Emanoel and Jesus.

When the doctor scanned her, they realized that the baby two heads of state and normal childbirth would be a great mother and the baby's risk, "hospital director Claudionor DE Los Assis told Brazilian newspaper O Povo. "Cesarean delivery took an hour because the baby seat. "

"Although we managed to save our mothers and babies, it is our goal as a small hospital room all the problems," he said. "For us it is a great surprise to find that the child is really good health."

Denazhalei expect twins, found only about two minutes ago, led by children, the doctor recommended that she have a Caesarean section to save her life and her baby. With the two heads of state, 9.9-pound newborn independent thorn.

In some way one's brain is underdeveloped at birth, a head is removed, in order to save children's lives. But like this, where there are two functioning brain, in rare cases, the doctor's decision-making process complexity.

"If their brains are functioning, we have to choose which to delete first?" Neila Dahas, Santa Casa hospital director said. "We do not consider the possibility of surgery, we have to think at this moment, is to maintain the good condition of the children, to see how they will develop."

Conjoined twins sharing a body, but independent of head, is extremely rare, but not without precedent. This is the second time this year, was born in Brazil. However, other children died a few hours after the first child, due to lack of oxygen.

Have at least 14 dicephalic in conjoined twins born over the past 200 years.

In the U.S., 21-year-old Abigail and Zell 1996 Learning Channel documentary from the subject, and appeared in Oprah Winfrey Show.