Hacked Regard Container Stays Offline

Hacked US safety definite Stratfor has told its subscribers that it may take a week or even longer to revive its website.

The site went offline on 24 December.

Hackers have posted credit card details, email addresses, phone figures and encrypted passwords that they mentioned were taken during the attack.

Stratfor has mentioned it will pay for a credit card rascal insurance service for members whose remuneration sum might have been compromised by the breach.

Tweets posted on accounts related to the hacktivist organisation Anonymous mentioned that the US Department of Defense, the counterclaim definite Lockheed Martin and Bank of America were amid Stratfor's clients.

A new summary posted by @YourAnonNews updated that other parties affected by the penetrate enclosed Google, American Express, Coca-Cola, Boeing, Sony, Microsoft and the mining organisation BHP Billiton.

An email from Stratfor to its subscribers said: "At our expense, you have taken measures to give our members whose credit card data may have been compromised with access to CSID, a heading provider of universal identity insurance and rascal showing solutions and technologies.

"We have organised to give a year of CSID's coverage to such members at no cost.

"As segment of our continuing investigation, you have moreover motionless to check the rising of our website until a in depth examination and composition by outward experts may be completed."

The identity theft avoidance service Identity Finder has carried out its own analysis of sum posted online about hacked customers whose names fell between A and M. It referred to that the assault netted:

9,651 unexpired credit card numbers

47,680 unique email addresses

25,680 unique write numbers

44,188 encrypted passwords of that rounded off half could be "easily cracked"

This list is approaching to blossom if the hackers tell sum of the N to Z list.

A twitter posted to the account @AnonymousIRC on 25 December claimed that $1m (650,000) had been taken from the hacked accounts and had been since to charity.

Participants in Anonymous have subsequently posted screenshots that allegedly uncover allowance being eliminated to the charities Red Cross, Save the Children and Care.

The organisations will have to lapse the allowance if credit card owners inform the charges as being unauthorised. Some supporters of the Anonymous transformation have moreover voiced regard that the charities could conceptually be charged a price is to lapse of the transactions.

Anonymous Twitter accounts have moreover hinted that the hackers programmed to let go sum of emails harvested in the crack , adding that "Stratfor is not the 'harmless company' it tries to paint itself as.

Stratfor could not be reached for comment. However a video posted by Fred Burton, its clamp boss of intelligence, to YouTube betrothed to give updates "as more sum turn available" and offering sum about the credit card insurance scheme.