Engadget reported on Friday that US The Wall Street Journal‘s backstage system suffered hacker attack, leading to a great many of information of subscribers and readers have been stolen.

It was not a good news to those existing readers of The Wall Street Journal.

William Lewis, the CEO of The Dow Jones &Company claimed that the backstage systems including Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal have been attacked by hackers, resulting in the reveal of readers’ data earlier this week.

Lewis claimed that they have found the evidence of hacker attack.

It reported that the purpose of this hacker attack is to gain the specific details of subscribers of The Wall Street Journal, such as full name, address, email address and other private details.

At the same time, Lewis indicated that about 3,500 subscribers’ credit card details have high risk to be stolen. However, they did not find out the prove to confirm this doubt.

Dow Jones & Company will send written notice to those subscribers whose have been stolen in this issue. In another word, if those subscribers do not receive a written notice from this company suggest their personal details are not being stolen.

Concerning to the hacker profile, Dow Jones & Company has not figure out yet.

In the past year, a great many of famous companies and News Media companies suffered attacks from hackers. Many of their customers’ credit card details have been leaked.

New York Times‘ Twitter account was being attacked early this year, and the hacker posted the news that US and Chinese Navy made war. United Press‘s Twitter account was being attacked as well.