Anonymous takes down over 650 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email

[kobiraaz]

Anonymous takes down over 650 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords

When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses and passwords, hundreds of Israeli Web sites, government-owned as well as privately owned pages, as well as databases belonging to Bank Jerusalem and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

If that’s not a declaration of success, I don’t know what is. There have so far been hundreds of takedowns of sites by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks; one Pastebin trying to list them all includes 659 Web sites. Not all of them are still down, but some are, and others are still defaced.

Another AnonPaste includes 2,004 email addresses, the majority of which appear to have corresponding passwords, allegedly stolen from an MySQL database belonging to dirotmodiin.co.il, a site for finding real estate in Israel. Many of them are hosted on Israeli domains, but there are also the usual Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts.

Yet as already mentioned, we’re talking about more than just DDoS attacks that are overloading Web sites, such as tel-aviv.gov.il, the municipal site for the second most populous city in Israel (after Jerusalem). There are also plenty of defacements, and, as of a few minutes ago, databases have also been wiped.

While the Israeli government almost certainly has backups of the aformentioned databases, these attacks as well as the defacements show Anonymous isn’t just doing its usual spree of overloading target sites. OpIsrael appears to have gotten multiple hackers involved who are interested in doing actual damage, or at least something that is slightly more permanent than just a 404.

Greetings World

For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair the barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment of the Palestinian people in the so called “Occupied Territories” by the Israel Defense Force. Like so many around the globe, we have felt helpless in the face of such implacable evil. And today’s insane attack and threatened invasion of Gaza was more of the same.

But when the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza they crossed a line in the sand. As the former dictator of Egypt Mubarack learned the hard way – we are ANONYMOUS and NO ONE shuts down the Internet on our watch. To the IDF and government of Israel we issue you this warning only once. Do NOT shut down the Internet into the “Occupied Territories”, and cease and desist from your terror upon the innocent people of Palestine or you will know the full and unbridled wrath of Anonymous. And like all the other evil governments that have faced our rage, you will NOT survive it unscathed.

To the people of Gaza and the “Occupied Territories”, know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight. We will do everything in our power to hinder the evil forces of the IDF arrayed against you. We will use all our resources to make certain you stay connected to the Internet and remain able to transmit your experiences to the world. As a start, we have put together the Anonymous Gaza Care Package – BayFiles – which contains instructions in Arabic and English that can aid you in the event the Israel government makes good on it’s threat to attempt to sever your Internet connection. It also contains useful information on evading IDF surveillance, and some basic first aid and other useful information. We will continue to expand and improve this document in the coming days, and we will transmit it to you by every means at our disposal. We encourage you to download this package, and to share it with your fellow Palestinians to the best of your ability.

We will be with you. No matter how dark it may seem, no matter how alone and abandoned you may feel – know that tens of thousands of us in Anonymous are with you and working tirelessly around the clock to bring you every aid and assistance that we can.

We Are Anonymous
We Are Everywhere
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget

To the oppressors of the innocent Palestinian people, it is too late to EXPECT US

Anonymous Attacks Israel to defend Palestinians in Gaza

 

[somebozo]

Yes and this really benefits the Palestinian people. Amazing feat of "script kiddie" with no real worth!

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

noobs showing off,they give a **** about palestinians.

 

[livingdead]

noobs showing off,they give a **** about palestinians.

They are not noobs, otherwise IDF employ super noobs to maintain their IT infra.

 

[Worf]

 

[Lone]

...Its basically a resistance against oppressive act, against the brutality Gazans and hence the innocent israelis are facing now. Israel should be chained this time, enough is enough

 

[mastaan]

This is IDF that we're talking about here. They will not get troubled with such internet distractions... Either the skirmish will stop in a couple of days (with people realizing AGAIN that Newton's Third Law is taken rather seriously by Israel and therefore good sense will prevail to curtail further rocket attacks) or else i fear nothing and noone can stop Israel from expanding the war and that will be a regional mess. They have shown time and again, when it comes to defending their pride and land, they're generations ahead of any other society...

Anyhow, Indian politicians should take few lectures from Israel on how to grow some back bone on issues relating to national security!

 

[airuah]

kiddos will be kiddos.....like this is gonna affect Israel in anyway

 

[mb444]

Every little helps.... Good luck to them

 

[T-Rex]

Yes and this really benefits the Palestinian people. Amazing feat of "script kiddie" with no real worth!

In that case israeli minions like you shouldn't worry! But something tells me it's burning your rear end.