Stratfor data breach: 859K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2013-12-04
In December 2011, "Anonymous" attacked the global intelligence company known as "Stratfor" and consequently disclosed a veritable treasure trove of data including hundreds of gigabytes of email and tens of thousands of credit card details which were promptly used by the attackers to make charitable donations (among other uses). The breach also included 860,000 user accounts complete with email address, time zone, some internal system data and MD5 hashed passwords with no salt. Exposed data: credit cards, email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, usernames. The breach dates from Dec 24, 2011; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 4, 2013.
What to do
- If you had a Stratfor account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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