UPDATE: Anonymous Hacks SpecialForces.com, Posts Passwords and Credit Card Data - donaldmarome

Members of the cyber-terrorist collective Anonymous arrogate they have stolen about 14,000 substance abuser passwords and 8,000 course credit card numbers from SpecialForces.com, a military and natural law enforcement equipment retailer. The information breach occurred several months ago, accordant to Anonymous, but the radical solitary right away distinct to post the data online. The purloined password list had reportedly been posted online several weeks ago as well.

A Chitter account statement associated with Anonymous has posted a screenshot of an e-mail from SpecialForces.com dated Dec. 15 admitting to the information breach. The purported SpecialForces.com netmail confirms that Anonymous obtained customer usernames, passwords, and mayhap encrypted credit entry add-in information. The e-mail advises customers that complete passwords were blocked as a security precaution to prevent pervert of user accounts. SpecialForces.com was inaccessible for comment, and attempts to contact putative victims of the Anonymous hack were unsuccessful.

Anonymous members were obviously motivated to tone-beginning SpecialForces.com because, the hackers believe, the site's customers are largely "military and practice of law enforcement attached individuals." The attack on SpecialForces.com is part of a larger Anonymous hacking campaign called LulzXmas. The campaign included the recent attack on Stratfor Globular Intelligence, a think tank centred along world security issues. In that attack, Anonymous was able to obtain more 53,000 client e-mail addresses as well as credit card numbers and other ain information. Stratfor's website has been down feather since the assail finished the Christmas weekend. Anonymous describes LulzXmas equally seven-day hacking campaign targeting sites related to global finance, militaries and governments.

UPDATE (4:05 p.m. EST): U. S. Army Special Forces Pitch, the company behind SpecialForces.com, issued the chase statement to PCWorld: "Last August 2011, Special Forces Cogwheel's World Wide Web servers were compromised by the cyber-terrorist group Unidentified, resulting in a security break that allowed the hackers to obtain customer usernames, passwords, and possibly encrypted charge plate information in some cases…The compromised customer passwords were from a backing of a previous interlingual rendition of the website that is over a class old. Most of the credit menu numbers are terminated, and we don't have evidence of any charge plate misuse at this time. The ongoing web site does not store customer passwords Beaver State recognition carte du jour information…After the security breach, we completely rebuilt our website and hired third-party consultants to help us shore up website certificate."

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