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March 23rd, 2013, 09:19 GMT · By

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Hackers Take Down Official Mossad Website, Details of 30,000 Israeli Officials Leaked

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Several hacktivist groups are planning to unite their forces for OpIsrael starting with April 7. However, in the meantime, others keep targeting high-profile Israeli websites as a form of protest against the Israeli government.

The latest attack is the result of cooperation between Sector 404, Anonymous and the notorious Turkish collective RedHack.

The hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against mossad.gov.il, the official website of the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service.

In addition, hackers also published the personal details of more than 30,000 people, but the data leak isn't directly linked to the attack on Mossad's website.  

The list of affected individuals reportedly includes politicians, government employees, military and police officials.

HackRead informs that Sector 404 launched the DDOS attack, while Anonymous and RedHack were busy leaking the data.

The leaked data has been removed from some of the sites, but it’s still available online in a number of locations.

The data dump comprises names, email addresses, physical addresses, fax numbers and phone numbers.

Currently, mossad.gov.il appears to be working.

Updated to clarify that the data leak is not directly linked to the DDOS attack launched on the Mossad website.

Update 2. Some experts question if the leaked data really belongs to officials. More details here.

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Comment #1 by: Ed Windsor on 23 Mar 2013, 19:43 UTC reply to this comment

Just checked the Mossad site at 19.41 GMT and it's D-O-W-N.


Comment #2 by: peachesknowsall on 07 May 2013, 13:33 UTC reply to this comment

Is the true nature of all these attacks to expose spies that would STOP international terrorism and to steal access, finances and names for Terrorists to FALSELY USE ?? Its happening here in the south burbs of chicago and is run by a black muslim group. NOT THE CIA.. its all forgein financing and idiots.

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