Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on Stratfor

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/data-on-canadian-officials-stolen-in-attack-on-stratfor.html

By Andrew Mayeda
Bloomberg
June 11, 2012

Data on almost 1,000 Canadian government officials was stolen in the 
hacking of a Texas-based intelligence firm in December, according to 
internal government documents.

Almost 900 federal government workers and 109 provincial government 
officials were affected when computers owned by Strategic Forecasting 
Inc. were hacked, according to a memo by the federal Public Safety 
department obtained by Bloomberg News under Canada’s 
freedom-of-information law.

The hackers obtained the client list of the company also known as 
Stratfor, and released personal information such as emails, passwords, 
home and office addresses and credit-card data, according to the Jan. 9 
memo.

Canada is trying to bolster its defenses as countries deploy 
increasingly advanced technology to disrupt their enemies’ networks and 
gain access to trade secrets. Some of Canada’s biggest companies, such 
as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp., have 
been targeted.

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