BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Lebanon has held the Zionist regime responsible for a recent hacking into the country's telecom network during a speech by Secretary General of Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
During the Thursday speech to honor Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine, calls and messages were sent to thousands of Lebanese people accusing Nasrallah of ordering Badreddine’s murder.
Following the incident, Hezbollah said, "An unknown source manipulated the landlines of Hezbollah’s press office, calling a number of citizens and sending text messages,” which "included insults against the resistance and its leader.”
In a joint statement, Lebanon’s Telecommunications Ministry and the state-run telecoms company Ogero said they believe that the Zionist regime is behind the suspicious phone calls, citing a similar Israeli hacking back in 2006.
The breach affected around 10,000 phones through a "high technology that penetrated the telephone network from outside Lebanon,” the statement added.