Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): Victims of a hack attack on a US-based security firm Statfor are apparently being targeted again after speaking out about the hacking.
Stratfor's website has been down since it was apparently hit by notorious Internet hacking group Anonymous on Christmas Eve.
The company's chairman used Facebook to apologise to customers, but warned against posting messages of support, The BBC reports.
"It's come to our attention that our members who are speaking out in support of us on Facebook may be being targeted for doing so and are at risk of having sensitive information repeatedly published on other websites," the company said in a post.
"In order to protect yourselves, we recommend taking security precautions when speaking out on Facebook or abstaining from it altogether," it added.
This was followed later with a message admitting the full extent of the hack.
"On December 24th an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card data of some of our members," the think-tank's chairman George Friedman wrote.
"We have reason to believe that your personal and credit card data could have been included in the information that was illegally obtained and disclosed," he said.
Friedman said that a 'leading identity theft protection and monitoring service' had been tasked with protecting clients. The company's email and servers have been taken offline.
The company also said the disclosure of what hackers claimed were 'private clients' was 'merely a list of some of the members that have purchased our publications and does not comprise a list of individuals or entities that have a relationship with Stratfor'.
Anonymous had claimed that it had stolen thousands of emails, passwords and credit card details from Statfor because the company did not encrypt it. (ANI)
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