First Hacked Credit Cards Hit Net

Last week, Anonymous hacked into the subscription records of the company Stratfor, which advises companies and governments on security. The hacking was a nasty joke, a way of saying “see, even your vaunted security companies can’t keep us out.” In the process, Anonymous grabbed the credit card information of the subscribers.

On Thursday, they published the credit card information of Australian Member of Parliament Malcolm Turnbull, billionaire David Smorgon, journalist Sam Lipski, as well as the companeis BHP Biliton and Woodside Petroleum. Stratfor had notified those effected immediately, one can assume that Mr. Turnbull’s statement that the information was “old” means that defensive measures were taken as soon as the subscribers were notified.

Stratfor stated that the hacked list was their subscribers, not their private client list, which includes the United States Department of Defense, Apple and Microsoft. Read Full Story