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Hackers Dump More Stratfor Emails, Passwords

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Anonymous on Thursday dumped thousands of additional documents obtained via the hack of security firm Stratfor and promised to attack "multiple" law enforcement targets over the New Year's weekend.

In a note posted to Pastebin, the hackers said they have revealed the "full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor" as well as "860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who's ever registered on Stratfor's site."

The document was titled "antisec teaser." AntiSec is a joint effort between Anonymous and the now-defunct LulzSec that targets governments with which they disagree.

Anonymous said 50,000 of the email addresses were .mil and .gov.

In a statement, Stratfor said it "regrets the latest disclosure of information obtained illegally from the company's data systems."

"We want to assure our customers and friends this was not a new cyber attack, but was instead a release of information obtained during the previous the security breach," the company said. "The latest disclosure included credit card information of paid subscribers, and many email addresses of those who receive Stratfor's free services."

Stratfor said it is "taking steps to improve data security, ... cooperating with the law enforcement officials investigating the matter, and we are conducting an internal review of what happened."

Last weekend, hackers claiming to be associated with Anonymous hacked Stratfor and published information about the company's clientele, including credit card information. Stratfor subsequently shut down its Web site and promised free ID theft protection for its customers.

In a note on its Facebook page last night, Stratfor said some of its customers were having trouble signing up for the ID theft protection from CSID or had not received an email with details. Those needing assistance can email CSID at support@csid.com or call one of the numbers listed on Facebook.

Anonymous said the attack was in retaliation for the government's prosecution of Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking confidential government documents to Wikileaks. The Pastebin note also lashed out at "corrupted politicians, establishmentarians and government agencies sex shops."

Anonymous promised to hold "noise demonstrations" outside jails and prisons worldwide on New Year's Eve "to show solidarity with those incarcerated." They also pledged to attack "multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast," but did not go into detail.

Also this week, Anonymous revealed that it hacked military supply Web site SpecialForces.com back in August.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 1:30pm Eastern with comment from Stratfor.

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