Israel’s stock exchange, national airline websites hacked

PanARMENIAN.Net - The websites of Israel’s stock exchange and national airline, El Al, were down around 10 am Monday, Jan 16, apparently as result of yet another cyber-attack by pro-Palestinian hackers, Ynet reports.

The Saudi hacker who initiated the recent wave of online attacks on Israeli sites informed the agency earlier of the planned attack, which he said was to be carried out by a group of pro-Palestinian hackers referring to themselves as “Nightmare.”

While El Al’s website would not load at all, the stock exchange was only presenting trade figures, without the possibility to perform any other action. Stock market officials said trading is going on as usual, as the computer system that manages it is separate from the website.

Meanwhile, the Israeli-Arab cyber war continues to escalate. Pro-Israeli hacker Hannibal, who claims that he is a “Jew who lives somewhere in the world,” published early Monday the Facebook account details of some 20,000 Arab users. He also claimed to possess information that can be used to breach the bank accounts of some 10 million people in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Ynet said it looked into Hannibal’s claims and confirmed that the details he published indeed allow for the unauthorized use of Facebook accounts.