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Breach occurred 2011-12-24Verifiedstratfor.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Stratfor data breach occurred on December 24, 2011. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 4, 2013.
859,777 accounts were affected by the Stratfor data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Stratfor breach exposed the following data types: Credit cards, Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Stratfor breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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