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STRATFOR Hit by Hack Attack by ‘Anonymous’

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    FBN’s Shibani Joshi on the security breach of security analysis firm STRATFOR.

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Biz alert for years security analysis from -- -- has not only fallen -- computer hackers but now victims.

Who spoke out have been hit with yet another security breach -- -- Joshi has been following this story force throughout the morning and first off do we know who's responsible for what could be the worst attack ever.

Right -- right now we believe that it's a hacking group anonymous but the yen because they've come out over the weekend and sad that not only were -- the -- -- hacked into the county have been publishing some of the leaked information.

That was stolen from this -- security consulting firm called Stratford.

It includes things like.

Email passwords credit card numbers even home addresses not just for individuals large corporations Stratford -- wrap presents from the biggest corporations around the globe.

Apple HSBC.

-- -- the US air force all of these companies all and many the individuals that are tied to them.

All potentially exposed industries still -- the clock I mean this is a security company.

And a visit the company that prides itself on on data security and they've been preaching in and -- makes you wonder if if no one -- at this point well you know I think we got a couple things going on here at this is certainly big credibility blow to the sperm they work with her biggest companies out there there are questions about whether or not -- data was capped and then most safe and most sophisticated ways an anonymous again they're the ones they keep accent we stole the data.

Sad that -- data was left un encrypted meaning it was just out there very easy to take very easy to decipher.

If that is the case this is a huge issue for Stratford we know that encrypting -- sort of the basic 101 that you need to do to keep -- that from being stolen.

It's so that's going on but you know obviously this is leads to more issues this is usually a time of year where we spent a lot of money we're spending time -- -- families right not thinking about our cyber security but yet and another -- -- -- need to deliver checks anymore we don't -- -- everything now is going electronic with online shopping.

Again Blockbuster year -- if the numbers are getting in -- correct and at the same time you got a company.

Who's responsible for all of this.

I mean -- -- telling their customers -- they've been talking to the public about what happening or not people actually if you go to the website Stratford dot com the website has been taken down it's completely is saying you can't get into it because it's trying to figure out how this site was.

Infiltrating you can see the website right here they are not necessarily.

It admitting to anything on face that they're going on -- -- sought to people going -- FaceBook saying.

-- I was -- I have had these issues but again.

We kind of don't know the full extent of things right now fourteen to four four -- 141000.

Accounts -- and -- it could grow 200000.

We just don't know.

Easily you know you mentioned anonymous and anonymous has had quite a year not to do they have targeted -- not successfully hacked but also.

About companies many major American names that actually -- -- -- as apple Sony Sony Citigroup -- gotten hit this I mean this really has and they forget the year the protesters near the hacker and think about it is.

Going -- be an issue that we continue to face as corporate America continues to face.

That individuals continues to face as we going to 2012 piece as more and more.

Information gets digits -- digitized for lack of a better word transactions happening that's where the hackers go they go where the money is and this is where the money's going just the whole financial system -- -- completely -- -- -- thank you very much yeah that's great breath taken you know every story with my credit --

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