In the last month of 2011 U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor faced cyber attack from Hactvists. Anonymous claimed that they have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of Stratfor’s confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses. But later in a press release Anonymous dines that attack so its quit difficult to figure out that who was really behind the hack.
But from this Monday Wikileaks has planned to release over 5 Million emails from Stratfor Global Intelligence, whose website was hacked and emails and customer data stolen in December.
According to official website Wikileaks:-
"On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods..."
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