Israel Steps up Rhetoric Against Credit-card Hackers - romannottly

A top Land official said Saturday that cyber attacks are similar to terrorism and merit the same response, just a few years after tens of thousands of charge plate numbers were discharged past a hacker loss by the cite "oxOmar."

Deputy sheriff Alien Pastor Danny Ayalon, World Health Organization rung at an result in the City of Beersheba, aforementioned "no more agency or hacker leave be immune from a response," accordant to the English-language Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Israel's Banking Superintendence Department said last Tues that the information released last week involved around 15,000 active card game and came from ternary credit-menu companies: Cal (Cartisey Ashrai Lupus erythematosus'Israel) — Israel Credit Cards; Isracard, and Leumi Card.

Ayalon himself also appears to have been targeted following his comments. On Monday morning, Ayalon's personal website for a truncated time redirected to a different field containing Arabic messages and the note "Hacked by Foxy + TKL and Gaza HaCKeR Team."

"We declare war in cyberspace," reported to a Google translation of the page. "Serve non be afraid of these monkeys."

Efforts to reach spokespeople at Ministry of Tramontane Affairs and Ayalon through his restored website were unsuccessful.

An Israeli blogger claimed to own tracked pour down "oxOmar," who was believed to be a 19-year-overage keep in Saudi Arabia. Blogger Emir Fedida wrote that he believes oxOmar is actually from the United Arab Emirates and livelihood in United Mexican States.

Fedida wrote that a few hours of sleuthing showed the "not-so clever hacker, to put IT mildly, made umteen mistakes," accordant to a story in The Haaretz, other English-linguistic communication Israeli publication.

The Israeli governance was the direct of website hacks late last year, when its sites were downed shortly later on a threat by the collective Anonymous, although the seed of the outage was not confirmed.

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