Iran-linked hackers claim to have infiltrated IDF, Saudi databases

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.564492

By Aliyana Traison
Haareetz.com
Dec. 19, 2013

An Iran-linked hacker group calling itself the Islamic Cyber Resistance 
claims it infiltrated the servers of the Israel Defense Forces earlier 
this week and extracted the personal details of top army officers.

The group posted the information, which it says includes job titles, 
passwords, postal and email addresses, phone numbers and military codes of 
more than 2,000 Israeli officers onto its website.

The list also included around 200 names and public and home phone numbers 
of senior Defense Ministry officials, as well as of employees of defense 
contractors and industries, yet some of the numbers were outdated.

It said that it carried out the cyber attack to avenge the December 4 
assassination of a Hezbollah leader, Hassan Laqiss, an operation that the 
Lebanon-based militant group blamed on Israel.

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