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Stratfor email leak
WikiLeaks began publishing emails leaked from strategic intelligence company Stratfor on 27 February 2012 under the title Global Intelligence Files. By July 2014, WikiLeaks had published 5,543,061 Stratfor emails. Wikileaks partnered with more than 25 world media organisations, including Rolling Stone, L’Espresso and The Hindu to analyse the documents.
Stratfor is an Austin, Texas-based security group, which includes government agencies and some of the world's biggest companies as its clients. On December 24, 2011, hackers took control of Stratfor's website and released a list of names, credit card numbers, passwords, and home and email addresses. Those listed were affiliated with organizations such as Bank of America, the United States Department of Defense, Médecins Sans Frontières, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the United Nations. The hackers included Jeremy Hammond, who worked with Anonymous to release Stratfor's emails to WikiLeaks. The emails revealed Stratfor's surveillance of groups such as Occupy Wall Street and activists fighting for compensation from Dow Chemicals for the Bhopal disaster.
The e-mails are alleged to include client information, notes between Stratfor employees and internal procedural documentation on securing intelligence data. The communications date from July 2004 through to December 2011. Stratfor said the emails appeared to be those that were stolen by hackers in December 2011. In an initial announcement, WikiLeaks stated that they opened up a database of the emails to two dozen media organizations operating in several countries, including the McClatchy Company, l'Espresso, la Repubblica, ARD, the Russia Reporter, and Rolling Stone, along with a "sneak preview" to the Yes Men.
In June 2012, Stratfor settled a class action lawsuit regarding the hack.
Stratfor stated that some of the leaked emails "may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic", pointing to a phony email saying that Stratfor's CEO George Friedman had resigned. They stated that the emails represented candid internal language that would probably be ripe for misinterpretation. Outlets reported that the Stratfor emails had malware in downloads and on the WikiLeaks website.
One of the first items released was an email containing a glossary titled "The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms", which contained concise and sometimes humorously candid definitions, along with pointed assessments of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement. The glossary included items on how "background checks" can help "run up clients’ bill and makes it appear that you are busy" and how "briefs" for customers need to "make sh*t smell good".
Wikileaks said "the material contains privileged information about the U.S. government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 e-mails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange". Emails from Fred Burton, who was Stratfor's Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security and former Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division of the Diplomatic Security Service, indicated that he knew in January 2011 about a United States Government secret indictment against Assange. Internal Stratfor emails gave a suggested strategy for dealing with Assange: "Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years". Burton wrote that his strategy would be "Bankrupt the arsehole first, ruin his life. Give him 7-12 yrs for conspiracy". In one published email Burton allegedly wrote "Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever." In another leaked email, a Stratfor employee wanted Assange waterboarded.
The emails show Stratfor had contracts with Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Marine Corps. Mark LeVine, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, described this as "troubling" because Homeland Security had coordinated police attacks on the Occupy movement.
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Stratfor email leak
WikiLeaks began publishing emails leaked from strategic intelligence company Stratfor on 27 February 2012 under the title Global Intelligence Files. By July 2014, WikiLeaks had published 5,543,061 Stratfor emails. Wikileaks partnered with more than 25 world media organisations, including Rolling Stone, L’Espresso and The Hindu to analyse the documents.
Stratfor is an Austin, Texas-based security group, which includes government agencies and some of the world's biggest companies as its clients. On December 24, 2011, hackers took control of Stratfor's website and released a list of names, credit card numbers, passwords, and home and email addresses. Those listed were affiliated with organizations such as Bank of America, the United States Department of Defense, Médecins Sans Frontières, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the United Nations. The hackers included Jeremy Hammond, who worked with Anonymous to release Stratfor's emails to WikiLeaks. The emails revealed Stratfor's surveillance of groups such as Occupy Wall Street and activists fighting for compensation from Dow Chemicals for the Bhopal disaster.
The e-mails are alleged to include client information, notes between Stratfor employees and internal procedural documentation on securing intelligence data. The communications date from July 2004 through to December 2011. Stratfor said the emails appeared to be those that were stolen by hackers in December 2011. In an initial announcement, WikiLeaks stated that they opened up a database of the emails to two dozen media organizations operating in several countries, including the McClatchy Company, l'Espresso, la Repubblica, ARD, the Russia Reporter, and Rolling Stone, along with a "sneak preview" to the Yes Men.
In June 2012, Stratfor settled a class action lawsuit regarding the hack.
Stratfor stated that some of the leaked emails "may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic", pointing to a phony email saying that Stratfor's CEO George Friedman had resigned. They stated that the emails represented candid internal language that would probably be ripe for misinterpretation. Outlets reported that the Stratfor emails had malware in downloads and on the WikiLeaks website.
One of the first items released was an email containing a glossary titled "The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms", which contained concise and sometimes humorously candid definitions, along with pointed assessments of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement. The glossary included items on how "background checks" can help "run up clients’ bill and makes it appear that you are busy" and how "briefs" for customers need to "make sh*t smell good".
Wikileaks said "the material contains privileged information about the U.S. government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 e-mails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange". Emails from Fred Burton, who was Stratfor's Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security and former Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division of the Diplomatic Security Service, indicated that he knew in January 2011 about a United States Government secret indictment against Assange. Internal Stratfor emails gave a suggested strategy for dealing with Assange: "Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years". Burton wrote that his strategy would be "Bankrupt the arsehole first, ruin his life. Give him 7-12 yrs for conspiracy". In one published email Burton allegedly wrote "Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever." In another leaked email, a Stratfor employee wanted Assange waterboarded.
The emails show Stratfor had contracts with Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Marine Corps. Mark LeVine, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, described this as "troubling" because Homeland Security had coordinated police attacks on the Occupy movement.