E-mail addresses and passwords of British officials, U.S. and NATO have been posted on the Internet from a computer attack against the agency Stratfor website.

Anonymous hackers group said on Twitter that he had stolen on Christmas Day a series of addresses and dates of credit cards from members of Stratfor, said the British newspaper The Guardian.

According to analysis conducted for The Guardian by John Bumgarner, an expert in the U.S. Cyber ​​Consequences sercuritate Computer Unit, a research center based in Washington, were stolen information to officials of the British intelligence and U.S. military personnel.

As the United States were published information on 173 people who have served in Afghanistan, and personal data about former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

About 221 British military officials and 242 members of NATO have been victims of this approach and the Joint Intelligence Organisation advisers, a body dealing with sensitive information for British Prime Minister David Cameron, according to analysis by Bumgarner.

About 19,000 American military personnel belonging to the electronic addresses were disclosed.

Agency Stratfor, based in Texas, specializes in security and foreign policy.