Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
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.
About Stratfor
Geopolitical intelligence firm.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 860K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In December 2011, Stratfor experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 860K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as credit card, email address, full name, password, phone number.
Approximately 860K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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