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'Gaza Hackers' Breach MK Yuli Edelstein's Website


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 04:14:11 -0500 (CDT)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158462

By Rachel Hirshfeld
israelnationalnews.com
7/31/2012

The website of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) was hacked today by a group dubbed “the hacker group of Gaza.”

MK Edelstein, who has come under fire from Arab extremists as the result of his steadfast and unwavering work on behalf of the State of Israel, responded by calling the hacking attack “an act of terrorism like any other.”

The hackers, wrote “Death to Israel” and “Free Al Aksa Mosque” on the site, as well as a number of other similar messages, and demanded that Israel stop building in Judea and Samaria, stop the “aggression in Gaza” and release all ‘Palestinian’ prisoners.

There were a number of Hebrew errors on the hacked site, which may indicate that the perpetrators are not native Hebrew speakers and that translation software may have been used.

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