WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Hackers have attacked several Zionist regime and media websites in recent weeks, amid Israel’s bombing campaign and ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip.
A group calling itself Cyber Toufan said it hacked the occupying regime’s war ministry last week and subsequently dumped huge troves of data on its Telegram account, which it claimed were the names of Israeli army and reserve soldiers.
In a video released on its Telegram account, a hacker displayed data about Zionist troops, including their names, ranks, service numbers and places of residence.
Cyber Toufan appears to be a reference to Hamas’s 7 October operation in southern parts of the Israeli-occupied territories, which Hamas called the Al-Aqsa Flood.
Cyber Toufan said in a statement that it had destroyed more than 1,000 servers in attacks and breached 150 Zionist regime “targets”, including scores of agencies and companies.
On Wednesday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that hackers had infiltrated the occupying regime’s archive last week, where they obtained the personal details of the site’s users, including researchers, historians and otehrs.
A notice posted on the archive website confirmed a cyber attack, but did not mention that the hackers disseminated the details of some of the website’s users.
“The company hosting the archive website has fallen victim to a cyber attack,” the notice read.
“The attack disrupts the search and perusal services of the archival material, and we are working to renew full service to the public.”
Haaretz reported that the hackers had leaked the names, phone numbers and email addresses of private users, including researchers who had written to the archive.
Since 7 October, hacking groups have launched a series of cyber attacks against the Zionist regime and announced to have compromised regime websites, the Israeli electric grid and a rocket alert app.
At least one Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, has acknowledged that hackers took down its site.
Meanwhile, one of the most serious breaches took place just days after the 7 October attacks, when a group calling itself Malek Team hacked Israel’s Ono Academic College and stole information about more than 250,000 people.
The group has posted death threats alongside online copies of identification documents and footage that appears to be from the school’s internal video surveillance system.