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  Friday December 30, 2011

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The hackers that attacked U.S. security intelligence think-tank StratFor have published the usernames and passwords of the company's entire customer base, which includes a staggering number of individuals from high profile Australian corporations and Government departments.

-- Brett Winterford

by Brett Winterford, December 30 2011

Thousands of Australians exposed.

Hackers have published the credit card details for the complete subscriber base of security intelligence firm StratFor on the open web, as well as the usernames and passwords of around half a million corporate and government customers.

Earlier this week the loose-knit Anonymous group had already posted close to 50,000 credit card details over the Christmas period after gaining access to StratFor's servers.

Today the group released the full list of credit card details, plus what it claimed were 860,000 registration (username and password) details.

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