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Article says there was 5 million emails and it was that which he pasted the link to, therein contained credit card info for 5k people. How would he have known t
by eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Article says there was 5 million emails and it was that which he pasted the link to, therein contained credit card info for 5k people. How would he have known to screen it for credit card no's? What were the credit card details doing in the emails? How did stratfor come in to possession of them, wikipedia says it has 70 employees? Was that possession legal?
- socillion 13y agoThe release was announced here: http://pastebin.com/f7jYf5Wd http://pastebin.com/f7jYf5Wd See also: http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/30/stratfor-data-dump/ http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/30/stratfor-data-dump/ "It's time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor." That is followed by a request for other people to make use of that credit card information. I don't know enough to make a judgement on whether he can be expected to have known that the data dump contained credit card information.
- eliasmacpherson 13y agoSo he was not the one that actually released it then. A forbidden URL, he really is being charged for copying and pasting it. Bizarre language, "caused the data to be made available to other persons online". The indictment has the hyperlink in it itself, I would imagine the indictment has been read by more people than were in the IRC channel. Seems hypocritical to me.
- dantheman 13y agoIt was stratfor subscriber information that contained billing information.