Stratfor Hacked, 200 GB of Emails, Credit Cards Stolen, Client List Released...

[Peter Lemkin]

I know that who ever did this will use the credit cards to make donations to worthy causes. That is, organisations which normal people think worthy, helping the poor and orphaned, homeless, the hungry, freedon of speech, healthcare and education, animal shelters.....

What I wonder is how many of the clients of Statfor will cancel these donations....?

Scrooges all, I'd say all who notice in time will cancel them. They only give money to things that kill, can be used in killing or repression, denial of rights, etc. - or would benefit themselves alone in lucre.

From Wiki:
Stratfor has published a daily intelligence briefing since its inception in 1996. Its rise to prominence occurred with the release of its Kosovo Crisis Center during the 1999 NATO air-strikes over Kosovo, which led to publicity in Time magazine, Texas Monthly, and other major publications.[1] Before the end of 1999, however, Stratfor had introduced a subscription service through which it offered the majority of its analyses. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Stratfor made its "breaking news" paragraphs, as well as some notable analyses predicting likely actions to be taken by al-Qaeda and the Bush administration, available freely to the public.

Stratfor has some products available to the public including private briefings, corporate memberships, a publishing business that includes written and multimedia analysis and an iPhone application.[2]
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Clients

Stratfor's client list was confidential, and the company's publicity list includes Fortune 500 companies and international government agencies.[3] The hacker group Operation AntiSec made it public on December 24, 2011.[4]

Currently Stratfor's products are oriented around individual subscriptions, of which the "Premium" product is the most comprehensive in content offered. Other packages, such as "Global Vantage", are tailored to appeal to commercial or governmental customers. They feature regional and customizable intelligence whereby users are able to partake in monthly teleconferences with Stratfor's founder, Dr. George Friedman, and have the option of emailing Stratfor's analysts with a "guaranteed response within 24 hours MondayFriday".[5] Some of Stratfor's work remains available free to the public.[6]
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Media coverage

Stratfor has been cited by media such as CNN, Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and the BBC as an authority on strategic and tactical intelligence issues.[7] Barron's once referred to it as "The Shadow CIA".[8]

It was reported in December 2011 that members of Anonymous had stolen of emails and credit-card data from Stratfor's web site. [9] According to the one page that was still up but without any links the "Site is currently undergoing maintenance[:] Please check back soon".[10]