Israel Hacked, Promises to Retaliate

The Israeli government has vowed to strike back after a cyber-attack breached security and nabbed credit card details from a large volume of its citizens.

According to Reuters, the hacking of credit card details from thousands of Israeli citizens angered the government and considered the incident as one of the worst it has faced, likening the security breach to a form of terrorism.

It was “a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such,” said Daniel Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel. “Israel has active capabilities for striking at those who are trying to harm it, and no agency or hacker will be immune from retaliatory action.”


Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Daniel Ayalon. Image: The Official CTBTO Photostream via Flickr (CC)
The hacking attack focused on commercial sites and Ayalon said that Israel will not rule out the probability it was a “more organised and sophisticated” hacker group rather than one individual.

The hacker, indentified as OxOmar, claimed on Thursday the leakage of personal information from over 400,000 Israelis, but credit card companies only noticed 25,000 credit card numbers, several of which already expired.

Newspaper Haaretz reported that a certain blogger was able to track down the hacker and found a 19-year old United Arab Emirates student that currently studies and works in Mexico.
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