Boston (Reuters) - Hackers dependent with a Anonymous organisation published hundreds of thousands of email addresses they claimed go to subscribers of private intelligence analysis organisation Strategic Forecasting Inc.
The list, published late on Thursday, includes email addresses appearing to go to people operative for vast corporations, a U.S. troops and vital invulnerability contractors - information that hackers could potentially use to aim them with virus-tainted emails in an proceed famous as "spear phishing."
The Antisec coterie of Anonymous final weekend disclosed that it had hacked into a firm, that is widely famous as Stratfor and is also dubbed a "shadow CIA" since it gathers open-source intelligence on general crises.
The hackers had betrothed to means "mayhem" by releasing stolen information from a private group.
Stratfor released a matter confirming that a published email addresses had been stolen from a company's database, observant it was assisting law coercion examine a matter and conducting a possess investigation.
"At Stratfor, we try to encourage a enlightenment of inspection and analysis, and we wish to assure a business and friends that we will request a same severe standards in carrying out a inner review," a matter said.
"There are thousands of email addresses here that could be used for really targeted spear phishing attacks that could concede inhabitant security," pronounced John Bumgarner, arch record officer of a U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit organisation that studies cyber threats.
The Pentagon pronounced it saw no hazard so far.
"We are not wakeful of any concede to a DOD information grid," pronounced Lieutenant Colonel Jim Gregory, a orator for a Department of Defense, or DOD.
In a posting on a data-sharing website pastebin.com, a hackers pronounced a list enclosed some information from about 75,000 business of Stratfor and approximately 860,000 people who had purebred to use a site. It pronounced that enclosed some 50,000 email addresses belonging to a U.S. government's .gov and .mil domains.
The list also enclosed addresses during contractors including BAE Systems Plc, Boeing Co, Lockheed Martin Corp and several U.S. government-funded labs that control personal investigate in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Sandia and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Corporations on a list embody Bank of America, Exxon Mobil Corp, Goldman Sachs & Co and Thomson Reuters.
The entries enclosed scrambled versions of passwords. Some of them can be unscrambled regulating databases famous as rainbow tables that are accessible for download over a Internet, according to Bumgarner.
He pronounced he incidentally picked 6 people on a list dependent with U.S. troops and comprehension agencies to see if he could moment their passwords.
He pronounced he was means to mangle 4 of them, any in about a second, regulating one rainbow table.
(Additional stating by Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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