Islamic hackers post hundreds of Israeli email addresses and passwords

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/islamic-hackers-post-hundreds-of-israeli-email-addresses-and-passwords-1.448142

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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