Saudi hackers claim to post personal information of 400,000 Israelis
Credit card companies say list is repetitive and contains details of hundreds, not thousands of Israelis.
By Sefi Krupsky and Oded YaronSaudi hackers claimed Monday to have released the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of Israelis, after hacking one of Israel's leading sports websites.
A hacker claiming to be a member of the Saudi hacking group, Group-XP, claimed Monday that he penetrated one of Israel's leading sports websites and released the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Israelis.
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A credit card being swiped at a store. |
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One hacker, who claimed to be a member of the Saudi hacking group, Group-XP, said he revealed information including credit card details, personal addresses, names, phone numbers and ID numbers of individuals listed on the website, One.co.il.
Israeli credit card companies said Monday that the list is repetitive and only includes 14,000 Israelis.
They said they have blocked all the cards on the list, and will return customers their money should any purchases be made on the cards.
People who visited One’s website on Monday were redirected to a page on pastebay.com, where a message by a hacker who identified himself as xOmar 0 suggested visitors download a linked file containing a database of Israelis and their personal information.
The file included a number of lists with the details of tens of thousands of people. One of the lists included what the hackers termed 65 Zionists, who purchased products from a website called Judaism. Another list included the details of 500 people who donated to rabbis.
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Screen grab of Saudi hackers' message. |
According to the message posted by the Saudi hacker, Group-XP hacked into multiple Israeli websites from which Israelis frequently purchase products with credit cards. He said the group’s goal was to reach the credit card numbers of one million Israelis.
“We decided to give the world a gift for New Year's – the personal information of 400 thousand Israelis,” he wrote.
He wrote that they found the idea of “400 thousand people crowding Israeli credit card companies and banks and complaining their credit card details were stolen, watching as Israeli banks shredding 400 thousand credit cards and issuing new ones,” was appealing.
The website, One, said they were looking into the issue, and shortly after the page was hacked it returned to normal activity.
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Let the boys play. It's not like they are allowed to date, or drink alcohol in Saudi Arabia. What else is there to do but to sit in front of the computer?
Show us fast what you can do the your Iranian neighbors' computers before them Mullahs gulp your country for breakfast !
They are sinking like the Titanic.
Now the world knows that I bought my mom that beautiful stained-glass Hamsa for her birthday. Oh the shame!
...of protecting us from obvious threats.
if there have to be victims, I do hope that they are on the left, liberals who perhaps can get a wee message about the irrationality and immorality of "the opposition". This plan must have been conceived of by a two year old.
If the Saudis are so good in hacking then they should have hacked iranian servers and websites and posted the contents online. They should have hacked Republican Guard websites too and am sure they would have hit the mother lode. What a waste of time.
so many of the Islamic mititants, radicals and just plain silly and irresponsible people. I can't think of much that is as self defeating and designed to slander the Arab people. Oh, well, there is nothing new in this conduct that Israelis don't know about. Once can only shake one's head in dismay and feel storry for the chilrdren of these silly people. Thankfully, there are also many intelligent and well meaning people in the Islamic communities. Unfortunately, very, very few of these people have any real power.
Let's provide them with more high tech war equipment.
Wow. And I thought Saudis were only good for drinking high-end whiskey and gin, going after virgins, and partying in London. They also like to hide in the corner while real men in the US armed forces protect our oil in our large gas station on their desert. How did our oil get under their land?
Soon enough there will be anti-Israel "stuxnet" viruses used to attack Israel. Then is will be called "an act of war."
Sometimes it is for betterment sometimes for fun and sometimes for nastiness. What comes around goes around. Curious what will be the reaction to this nasty prank.
The punishment for id theft in saudi is amputation. Ie the hacker gets hacked!!!
You can bet your tuchas on it. Salaam/Shalom
But you don't sound sweet
Maybe they have Nutty/Limburger's info....ooops..fraud charges...again. Salaam/Shalom
That's sick.
It is an old Arab tale and nothing has changed.
I do not think they want to wake up the sleeping giant, the Israeli High Tech industry, the one the all the major global high tech companies in the world are after every day of the year. They all tried to beat Israel in wars and now they will try, only try to beat them online. Well, they will never succeed and if Israeli will start fighting back online, they will empty their bank accounts, publish all the XXX site they all visits, close their businesses, and take down all the networks in their countries, do not wake the sleeping giant, it will swallow your alive.
I'm sure a list of Saudi names of those who visit pornographic websites would be very long and enlightening. Can't wait to see it.
It's like a camel taking on a tiger.
I've often wondered why hackers don't use their computer skills for legitimate purposes. This sort of behavior is reprehensible.
But once I restrain my knee jerk, I realize that Israel probably has something evil up its sleeve. Saudi is way to compliant and servile to do anything contrary to the wishes of their masters both in Israel and the US.
Anyone can put the blame on someone else. I don't think the Saudi's would stoop that low and Israel will find out who hacked the site. We know it wasn't Julian Assange or his cronies, otherwise they would be posted on WikiLeaks. Hold on to that knee for now.
Once I got to the "knee jerk", I expected that you would say, on reflection, this is immature, immoral and unproductive behaviour. However, all you did is sign on to the juvenile prank, which if Israelis respond to, could spell pretty big trouble for the Arab world. Hopefully, Israel and Israelis don't respond but undoubtely there are immature and irresponsible Israelis as well.
LOOOOOOL
People have been assassinated for much less damage than that.