TechKnowTard » Hacks http://techknowtard.com The Tech Guide Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Alleged LulzSec deputy pleads not guilty to Stratfor hack http://techknowtard.com/2012/05/15/alleged-lulzsec-deputy-pleads-not-guilty-to-stratfor-hack/ http://techknowtard.com/2012/05/15/alleged-lulzsec-deputy-pleads-not-guilty-to-stratfor-hack/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:44:59 +0000 TechKnow http://techknowtard.com/?p=666 Posted in Hacks

A 27-year-old Chicago man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from a major hack on the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), a company the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks later called a “private CIA” following startling claims in the firm’s stolen emails. Prosecutors claim that Jeremy Hammond, known online as “Anarchaos,” worked with the [...]]]> Posted in Hacks


A 27-year-old Chicago man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from a major hack on the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), a company the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks later called a “private CIA” following startling claims in the firm’s stolen emails.


Prosecutors claim that Jeremy Hammond, known online as “Anarchaos,” worked with the hacktivist group “LulzSec,” which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had infiltrated. Agents claim they were able to flip the alleged ringleader, a 28-year-old Hector Xavier Monsegur, known online as “Sabu,” into helping bring the whole group down. Hammond was one of five others indicted in March for the “LulzSec” hacks and remains the highest profile arrest in the case so far. He’s been behind bars, held without bail, in Manhattan ever since.

A website launched to raise money for Hammond’s defense calls him a “political activist,” and carries a number of allegations about Stratfor. “The hack revealed that Stratfor employs a network of paid informants that include government employees and journalists,” the site claims. “The hack also revealed that Stratfor client Dow Chemical paid for spying on activists working to seek redress for the Bhopal environmental disaster. Stratfor was also hired by the Texas Department of Public Safety to infiltrate Occupy Austin.”
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