Members of Anonymous say they gathered thousands ofpasswords and credit card records from SpecialForces.com months ago...but onlymention it now to celebrate the holidays.Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous claim to havebreached SpecialForces.com—a site offering military and law enforcementgear—and gathered more than 14,000 passwords and some 8,000 credit cardnumbers. Anonymous says they breached the site several months ago but are onlynow getting around to publicizing the breach as part of “LulzXmas,” the groups’current hacking campaign. A Twitter account associated with Anonymous posted a
screenshot of a message SpecialForces sent to its customers warning of thebreach and informing them their passwords had been reset. According to thatmessage, SpecialForces believes only encrypted credit card data may have beencompromised.Anonymous claimed to have targeted SpecialForces.com becausetheir customers are mainly “military and law enforcement.”
The claim of responsibility for breaching SpecialForces.comcomes in the wake of attackers associated with Anonymous breaching StrategicForecasting (Stratfor) and obtaining more than 50,000 client email addresses,personal information, and credit card numbers, along with millions of emailmessages. The collateral damage from that attack has escalated, withmillionaire Australian MP Malcom Turnbull and billionaire business magnateDavid Smorgon (also Australian) having their credit card information publishedon the Internet—members of Anonymous have also posted images claiming to showreceipts for donations made to charities using credit card informationbelonging to Stratfor clients, including the U.S. Department of HomelandSecurity and Department of Defense.