In Email addresses and credit card details of thousands of subscribers of Stratfor, a private intelligence firm in the US that some dub as "shadow CIA," were published recently on the Internet by hackers alleged to be affiliated with the group Anonymous.
According to a report on Reuters.com, the leak included information on important people such as former US Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former CIA Director Jim Woolsey.
The Reuters report reads: "The hackers had promised that the release of the stolen data would cause 'mayhem.' A spokesperson for the group said via Twitter that yet-to-be-published emails from the firm would show 'Stratfor is not the 'harmless company' it tries to paint itself as'."
As per a Stratfor statement quoted by Reuters, the company confirmed that the published email addresses had been stolen from the company's database, and that it was helping law enforcement probe the matter and conducting its own investigation.
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