Pro-Palestinian hacktivists claim cyberattacks on Israeli politicians
A pro-Palestinian hacker group has claimed to have exfiltrated the data of a number of Israeli politicians.
The hacktivist group Handala Hack posted on its website on September 26, claiming to have two password-protected archives containing more than 60,000 secret emails belonging to Gabriel “Gabi” Ashkenazi, former Israeli foreign minister and former head of Israeli Defense Staff. Strengths.
“This data represents only a small portion of our data lake on Gabi Ashkenazi,” the group said.
“Are the current officials and ministries of the fake Zionist regime safe? Never!!!
“Be afraid of your shadow.”
🚨Data leak alert‼️
🇮🇱Israel – The hacktivist group Handala claims to have leaked 60,000 “secret” emails from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has made available 3 GB of data divided into two archives.
Handala also said: “This data represents only a small part of our data… pic.twitter.com/nGeA0IOkfi
– HackManac (@H4ckManac) September 26, 2024
Along with this list, the threat group released a number of private photos of Ashkenazi to support its claims.
The leak comes just days after the group claimed to have emails belonging to former Israeli Defense Minister and retired army general Benny Gantz.
Gantz left Israel’s emergency government in June, apparently the result of growing internal disagreements over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for Gaza after the war, according to the BBC as seen by CyberNews.
In a similar post a few days prior (September 23), Handala Hack published what it claimed were 35,000 private emails belonging to Gantz.
The next day, Handala released another archive that she said contains 2,000 photos of Gantz.
“In recent days, we discovered that Benny Gantz had many confidential and destructive meetings in his office,” Handala Hack said.
“We have been with this former Minister of Defense of the Zionist regime for many years! To prevent this, we only publish a small part of the data we have on him!
