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Saudi hackers publish Israeli credit card numbers on the Internet
REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently increased the sum Israelis could spend on Internet goods purchased abroad and imported without paying customs. The reason for expanding Israelis' eBay and other web-shopping options was to encourage competitive prices in Israel and make a dent in the cost of living.
But Israelis won't be in a hurry to cyber shop this week, as thousands woke up horrified Tuesday to find their credit card numbers along with their personal details published online.
Overnight, Saudi hackers named Group-XP claimed they broke into a leading Israeli sports site, redirecting surfers to a page where they could download a file containing the sensitive information.
The hackers claimed they published valid and current personal and credit card information belonging to nearly half a million Israelis. Credit companies pored over the lists throughout the night and cite a much lower number. According to the Bank of Israel, the number of compromised cards is approximately 15,000.
The credit companies quickly blocked the cards -- many of which had been used in Internet purchases for phone and web payments -- and will replace them in coming days.
According to Yoram Hacohen, head of the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority -- a relatively new government information protection regulator -- the source of the information is most likely Israeli businesses that didn't sufficiently safeguard customer information.
The hackers may also have merged information from several sources and databases previously breached and published (like this one), Hacohen told Israeli radio.
Customers will be reimbursed for any fraudulent purchases made with their cards, as part of the insurance paid to credit companies for precisely such cases. But the case reveals the underbelly of information security in Israel, where information breaches can expose individuals to identity theft and security risks and the state to cyber-terror.
A year ago, Israel had a taste of what a cyber attack on national infrastructure might look like when one of its cellular phone carriers crashed and left nearly a third of the country incommunicado. The failure was later determined to be a major malfunction and not malice but it may have helped the government establish a National Cyber Directorate a few months later to coordinate cyber-security efforts of various bodies of government, national infrastructure and industry.
Israeli websites, including government ones, are frequent targets of hackers, mostly for political reasons.
Earlier this week, the foreign ministry's websites were reportedly hacked. In November, the websites of the Mossad and IDF were inaccessible and others experienced problems for a day. Israeli officials attributed the crash to a server glitch rather than an attack, despite a hacker group's threat the day before to protest Israeli policy.
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REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently increased the sum Israelis could spend on Internet goods purchased abroad and imported without paying customs. The reason for expanding Israelis' eBay and other web-shopping options was to encourage competitive prices in Israel and make a dent in the cost of living.
But Israelis won't be in a hurry to cyber shop this week, as thousands woke up horrified Tuesday to find their credit card numbers along with their personal details published online.
Overnight, Saudi hackers named Group-XP claimed they broke into a leading Israeli sports site, redirecting surfers to a page where they could download a file containing the sensitive information.
The hackers claimed they published valid and current personal and credit card information belonging to nearly half a million Israelis. Credit companies pored over the lists throughout the night and cite a much lower number. According to the Bank of Israel, the number of compromised cards is approximately 15,000.
The credit companies quickly blocked the cards -- many of which had been used in Internet purchases for phone and web payments -- and will replace them in coming days.
According to Yoram Hacohen, head of the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority -- a relatively new government information protection regulator -- the source of the information is most likely Israeli businesses that didn't sufficiently safeguard customer information.
The hackers may also have merged information from several sources and databases previously breached and published (like this one), Hacohen told Israeli radio.
Customers will be reimbursed for any fraudulent purchases made with their cards, as part of the insurance paid to credit companies for precisely such cases. But the case reveals the underbelly of information security in Israel, where information breaches can expose individuals to identity theft and security risks and the state to cyber-terror.
A year ago, Israel had a taste of what a cyber attack on national infrastructure might look like when one of its cellular phone carriers crashed and left nearly a third of the country incommunicado. The failure was later determined to be a major malfunction and not malice but it may have helped the government establish a National Cyber Directorate a few months later to coordinate cyber-security efforts of various bodies of government, national infrastructure and industry.
Israeli websites, including government ones, are frequent targets of hackers, mostly for political reasons.
Earlier this week, the foreign ministry's websites were reportedly hacked. In November, the websites of the Mossad and IDF were inaccessible and others experienced problems for a day. Israeli officials attributed the crash to a server glitch rather than an attack, despite a hacker group's threat the day before to protest Israeli policy.
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HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you show em boys.
