Wikileaks has begun publishing more than five million emails from private intelligence firm STRATFOR. The group claimed that those emails date from between July 2004 and late December.
"They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods" Wikileaks said in the press release.
The release can be found at http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html. They mentioned the twitter hashtag as #gifiles for the leak;
WikiLeaks has partnered with 25 media organizations to sift, analyze and publish those emails: It lists the Indian paper The Hindu , the McClatchy News Agency, the Italian newspaper L’Espresso and among them.
Interestingly , the Wiki leaks has partnered with Anonymous Hackitivists ; Twitter accounts belong to Anonymous members announced that they gave the compromised data to WikiLeaks.
"To clarify to all journalists – YES, #Anonymous gave the STRATFOR emails obtained in the 2011 LulzXmas hack to WikiLeaks"YourAnonnews tweet says.
Members of Anonymous believed to have direct knowledge of the hack told Wired that WikiLeaks was attractive because it could spread leaked information better than Anonymous could. “WikiLeaks has great means to publish and disclose,” the Anonymous member told Wired. “Also, they work together with media in a way we don’t. ... Basically, WikiLeaks is the ideal partner for such stuff.”
