New hacker group claims attack on Israeli data center

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5349

Israel Hayom
August 9, 2012

"Remember Emad" hacker group claims it has taken control of an Israeli 
server - The group published lists of passwords for Facebook pages, credit 
card numbers and email addresses belonging to Israelis.

A hacker group, apparently from an Arab country or countries, claimed on 
Wednesday that it had breached the Israeli WebGate company's server and 
gleaned information stored in its Web pages.

The hacking comes six months after a Saudi-based hacker group published 
the credit card numbers and personal details of what it claimed were more 
than 400,000 Israelis on the Internet. Israeli credit card companies later 
said the number was closer to 15,000.

The new group said it would publish the information it gathered in stages, 
and has already released lists containing personal information, Facebook 
passwords, images of checks and credit card numbers belonging to thousands 
of Israelis.

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