Israel vows to go after Saudi teen hacker
ONLINE REPORTS - A hacker claiming to be a 19-year-old Saudi posted thousands of Israeli credit card numbers and other personal data online earlier this week - the hacker’s second politically motivated attack this year.
In response, the Israeli government likened the action to “a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such,” according to Reuters.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in a speech that Israel had not yet ruled out the possibility that the hacking had been carried out by a group “more organized and sophisticated … than a lone youth,” Reuters reports.
The hacker released the details of some 6,000 active accounts late Thursday, on top of the 15,000 made public earlier in the week, said Yoram Hacohen, the head of Israel’s data protection agency.
The hacker claims to have published details about 400,000 Israelis and blamed the “Zionist lobby” for covering up the size of the leak, in remarks published on the Internet on Thursday.
