Islamic hackers post hundreds of Israeli email addresses and passwords

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By Oded Yaron
Haaretz Daily
July 02, 2012

Islamic hackers on Sunday revealed hundreds of Israeli email addresses and 
their passwords on the website of Anonymous Arab. According to Avnet 
Security Systems, most of the addresses and passwords listed are active 
accounts.

Roni Bachar, the manager of the cyber-attack department at Avnet, said in 
a statement, "There was apparently penetration of an Israeli site which 
cannot be determined at this stage, a site that requires identification by 
email address and a password, as is usual at forum, content and commercial 
sites.

"It isn't clear yet which site or forum it is, but going over the list 
shows that most of the people appearing on it are connected to the fields 
of cosmetics, hairdressing and alternative therapies."

Bachar added that he doesn't believe that Facebook itself was hacked, 
"since the attack revealed only a small number of addresses, about 300, 
and passwords were determined through estimates and guesses of the brute 
force type."

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