by
Aaron Titus, Esq., Privacy Officer
26. December 2011 16:05
Update: December 27, 2011 8:00AM Eastern
We continue to monitor the Stratfor breach. At this point, hackers claim to have released names beginning with A-M, or roughly 50,000 records, with more likely on the way. We have analyzed the data released so far and have these updated numbers to report:
- Unique Credit Card Numbers: 50,277
- Unique Email Addresses: 47,680
- Unique Telephone Numbers: 25,680
The hackers claim to have 2.7 million internal Stratfor emails, which Identity Finder will also analyze for sensitive personal information, if released.
Original Post
Identity Finder has been monitoring the Stratfor breach very carefully over the past 24 hours, and will continue to do so until the Anonymous hackers have released all of the stratfor.com information. Identity Finder has analyzed approximately 20,000 records, and here's what we can confirm so far:
- Unique Credit Card Numbers: 21,605
- Unique Phone Numbers: 7,568
- Unique Email Addresses: 20,198
We expect these numbers to increase substantially in the coming hours and days.
Based upon a random sampling of 1% of the password hashes, we discovered that 59.3% of them were easily cracked using free, public tools.
Stratfor could have prevented this breach in numerous ways. One way they could have prevented the breach was to run Identity Finder against their databases to discover unencrypted credit card data, and protect the information.