Hackers who said they attacked Stratfor Global Intelligence service, a security research group based in Austin, Tex., over the weekend have claimed a second target: Special Forces, a veterans-owned Web site that sells military-inspired merchandise and gives away a portion of profits to charity.
The hackers, who claim to be members of the collective known as Anonymous, said they had breached the SpecialForces.com server Tuesday and stolen customers’ credit card details and passwords, in what they said was stage two of a “week long celebration of wreaking utter havoc on global financial systems, militaries and governments.”
In a posting online , the hackers said they were able to steal customer credit card information even though the site’s data was encrypted, and claimed to have 14,000 passwords and details for 8,000 credit cards belonging to Special Forces’ customers. They said they breached the Special Forces’ site months ago.
By Wednesday, IdentityFinder, a maker of data protection software, confirmed that SpecialForces.com had been compromised and determined that hackers had taken 7,277 unique credit card numbers, 40,854 e-mail addresses and released 36,368 usernames and passwords.
In a statement, Special Forces said its servers were hacked by Anonymous last August but added that it had “no evidence of any further security breaches and we believe that the recent Stratfor incident is being used to bring this old news back into the spotlight.”
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