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Members of the Anonymous collective announced during Christmas that they had broken into stratfor.com.

 

STRATFOR is an organization that gathers open source intelligence for forecasting purposes. They sell their publications via stratfor.com.

 

As far as we can tell, Anonymous gained access to a subscriber list stored on stratfor.com, and that list contained unencrypted credit card data.