ComputerWorldUK: Details of 176,000 Shell employees were e-mailed to NGO campaigners that have targeted Shell in the past (obviously, the leak was reported by one of the NGO recipients).
The email of Shell data, sent this week, called for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. There was a 170-page covering letter, which aimed to highlight human rights violations allegedly caused by Shell’s operations to Nigeria’s Ogoni people. The message also called for NGO staff to become undercover employees at large corporations, in order to push for a change in practices.
This is a jump start to the methods detailed in the October post: "InfoWar vs. Corporations" in that it both calls for an open source campaign (other groups) and provides an information platform that can be built upon. As detailed in that post, this info enables the direct targeting of employees to generate confusion, mistrust, and menace to slow Shells decision making processes (OODA loops) and promote the emergence of non-cooperative centers of gravity within the corporation.
Shell's response?
Shell told the FT that the database was genuine, but claimed it did not pose a security risk because it did not contain home addresses.This information deficit is actually relatively easy to rectify.