E-mail addresses and details of the stolen Defense News subscribers Gannett media companies

Kept a journal subscription database, the personal data of members of the U.S. armed forces has been hacked into, according to an American media company.

The Gannett Government Media Corporation holds information about the Defense News subscribers, one of the world 's most widely read publications on the military, and other publications aimed at the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel.

The company discovered the breach on 7 June and notifies subscribers via e-mail.

He said that names, passwords and email addresses were hacked, and that other details, such as duty status, grade and type of service, were also obtained by the hackers.

E-mails from cyber criminals for so-called phishing scams where recipients will receive an e-mail supposedly from a trusted source, which is then used to be used to gain control over their computers. One concern is that hackers could take over more control of a government computer system.

Other targets for hackers in recent weeks have included the U.S. banking group Citigroup. IBGE, the Brazilian statistics agency, its place on the 24th June saw hacked the front page of their website was replaced with a human face to the colors of the Brazilian flag.

A note on IBGE \ left 's Web site to read "There' s no room for groups without an ideology or as LulzSec Anonymous in Brazil ', in after trying to reach the group of other prominent hackers.

LulzSec first appeared after highly publicised assaults on Sony, the CIA and the US Senate, but recently announced it would disband as its members were "getting bored".

On Saturday, an anonymous article appeared the group 's leaders and core members names.

An alleged member, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary was arrested in Britain after an international investigation LulzSec 's activities.

The Anonymous group rose to prominence during Operation Payback campaign to support the site Wikileaks. The group used to interfere with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to target companies like Visa, Mastercard and Paypal in an attempt to their websites.