Hackers target cyber attack victims a second time

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hackers-target-cyber-attack-victims-a-second-time-6282134.html

By Guy Adams
The Independent
28 December 2011

It never rains but it pours for clients of Stratfor, the US security 
firm whose website was compromised at the weekend by members of the 
anarchic computer-hacking group Anonymous.

Victims of the attack, mostly employees of major companies or agencies 
which use Stratfor's services, learnt at Christmas that their names, 
addresses and credit card details had been published online.

Now it has emerged that those who spoke to the media about the 
experience, which typically saw their accounts used to make large 
donations to major charities, have been targeted a second time by 
hackers.

In a statement on its Facebook page yesterday, Stratfor said that 
individuals who stick their heads above the parapet "may be targeted for 
doing so and are at risk of having sensitive information repeatedly 
published on other websites".

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