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Released: January 12, 2012
‘Hactivists’ decried as new breed of censor
Source: Byron Acohido, USA Today
Global affairs website Stratfor relaunched Wednesday, three weeks after hacktivists put it in the dark.
The Statfor caper serves notice about a troublesome new strain of unpredictable censorship arising on the Internet, Stratfor CEO George Friedman says. Hackers claiming responsibility for the Stratfor attack accused the company of being a propaganda arm for corporate and government interests.
They pilfered credit card information and e-mails for more than 50,000 subscribers. They also destroyed the root directories to the company’s primary and backup databases. As a coup de grace, the Anonymous hacking collective that took credit bragged on Twitter about “nuking” Stratfor.
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