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WikiLeaks – Stratfor CEO Resigns – “Rats Leaving Sinking Ship?”
WikiLeaks has begun releasing data gathered from the corporate intelligence company Stratfor by Anonymous activists in December 2011, forcing the resignation of the company's CEO and founder George Friedman.
The profitable intelligence company, which provides services to many corporations and governments, was hacked by Anonymous in late December 2011. Anonymous announced that it has gathered more than 200 gigabytes of data and 5 million internal Stratfor company emails, outlining the unethical tactics and an insider-trading scheme.
Anonymous said that Stratfor was "clueless […] when it comes to database security", that passwords were not encrypted and often they were simply the name of the company.
Anonymous accessed the data of more than 17,000 credit cards and used them to make donations to various charities, including the Red Cross, Save the Children and CARE, but these are likely to be reimbursed to credit-card owners under reports of fraudulent transactions, costing those charities serious amounts of money.
