Anonymous Hacking Attack Titled ‘Robin Hood’ Hits The Major Firms
The cyber attack targeted Stratfor which is a company from Texus carrying out analysis on the international security issues especially for banks, police agencies, and oil companies.
Besides, claiming to own a donating as much as $500,000 to online based charities by stealing data, hackers posted some specific parts of their online haul. The stolen files included above 50,000 numbers of credit cards of which approximately 10,000 were within the date of expiration, total of 87,000 email addresses & 44,000 encrypted passwords including almost half that could b cracked quite easily.
Major British firms including BP, HSBC & Tesco were enlisted in those files.
On the Boxing Day, hackers claimed to have a sample of stolen emails of the servers of Stratfor.
“This is just a preview of the upcoming mayhem,” stated in message from the hackers.
“At the very first glance, the actions look like some sort of Robin Hood actions who used to steal stuffs from the affluent distributing them among the poor”, Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer at the F-Secure commented on the crime.
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