NOVANEWS
By Sydney Barakat
Over the past few hours, Anonymous has been tweeting about today’s hacking of Israeli websites and social media accounts, insisting that — despite various claims that the cyber shutdown proved to be an ultimate failure — #OpIsrael was an actual success.
Let it be known that #Opisrael2015 was indeed successful. Every hack/DDOS/deface is a piece of success. So @haaretzcom, #epicfail on ur part
— #OpIsrael (@Op_Israel) April 7, 2015
#OpIsrael: 700 sites hacked, thousands of Social Media, Paypal credentials leaked |http://t.co/KvVOhUeZ10 via @HackRead — #OpIsrael (@Op_Israel) April 7, 2015
Furthermore, Anonymous has been attempting to discredit accusations that OpIsrael2015 was, in the end, just an “epic fail,” as a hareetz.com article stated earlier. They have also tweeted their disdain for the term “Electronic Holocaust,” though the term was clearly stated in the initial Anon video released early last month.
Well, maybe success is in the eye of the beholder? Even Anonymous is tired of the back and forth debate. They ended today with another tweet saying:
We’re exhausted. We will rest with one eye open, however. Zio freaks could randomly do shenanigans to people. #FreePalestine
— #OpIsrael (@Op_Israel) April 8, 2015
Anti-Israel cyberattack a far cry from promised ‘electronic holocaust’
Hacktivists belonging to Anonymous collective release what appears to be Israelis’ private information and hijack websites.
Threats of cyberattack have become an annual affair, made by anti-Israel activists in retaliation for crimes “in the Palestinian territories.”
As in years past, members of the so-called “hacktivist” collective released lists that purportedly contain Israeli credit card numbers, e-mail login data and phone numbers. Some of the information has been released by hackers in previous years; and some of it isn’t confidential, including Knesset members’ work phone numbers.
Dozens of websites were hacked on Tuesday, two of which belong to Israeli singers Ivri Lider and Shalom Hanoch. Both sites are managed by the same Israeli firm. The Meretz party’s website was hijacked over the weekend. Some have dubbed these hacking efforts as “cyber graffiti.” Several people reported receiving text messages from the number “007” in Arabic that promised to “liberate the two holy mosques from Jewish children.”
The cyber operation was announced in a video posted on Youtube on March 4. In the video, a masked figure in a suit wearing Anonymous’ trademark white mask reads out a statement, vowing, “We will erase you from cyberspace as we have every year. The seventh of April 2015 will be an electronic holocaust.”
Speaking in English with Arabic subtitles, the masked figure threatens, “As we did many times, we will take down your servers, government websites, Israeli military websites, and Israeli institutions.”
