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WikiLeaks releases Stratfor e-mails
12:14 - 27.02.12
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than
five million emails from a US-based global security analysis company
that has been likened to a shadow CIA, Reuters reported.
The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and
throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the
company known as Stratfor, which counts Fortune 500 companies among
its subscribers.
In a statement shortly after midnight ET, Straford said the release of
its stolen emails was an attempt to silence and intimidate it.
It said it would not be cowed under the leadership of George Friedman,
Stratfor's founder and chief executive officer. It said Friedman had
not resigned as CEO, contrary to a bogus email circulating on the
Internet.
Some of the emails being published "may be forged or altered to
include inaccuracies; some may be authentic," the company statement
said.
"We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that
went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be
victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them," the
statement said.
WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of
internal and external correspondence of the Austin, Texas company,
formally known as Strategic Forecasting Inc.
Hackers linked to the loosely organized Anonymous hackers group said
at the beginning of the year they had stolen the email correspondence
of some 100 of the firm's employees. The group said it planned to
publish the data so the public would know the "truth" about Stratfor
operations.
Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
12:14 - 27.02.12
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than
five million emails from a US-based global security analysis company
that has been likened to a shadow CIA, Reuters reported.
The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and
throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the
company known as Stratfor, which counts Fortune 500 companies among
its subscribers.
In a statement shortly after midnight ET, Straford said the release of
its stolen emails was an attempt to silence and intimidate it.
It said it would not be cowed under the leadership of George Friedman,
Stratfor's founder and chief executive officer. It said Friedman had
not resigned as CEO, contrary to a bogus email circulating on the
Internet.
Some of the emails being published "may be forged or altered to
include inaccuracies; some may be authentic," the company statement
said.
"We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that
went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be
victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them," the
statement said.
WikiLeaks did not say how it had acquired access to the vast haul of
internal and external correspondence of the Austin, Texas company,
formally known as Strategic Forecasting Inc.
Hackers linked to the loosely organized Anonymous hackers group said
at the beginning of the year they had stolen the email correspondence
of some 100 of the firm's employees. The group said it planned to
publish the data so the public would know the "truth" about Stratfor
operations.
Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress