Hebrew media reported that “an Iranian hacker group calling themselves “The Flood” carried out “the largest cyber attack on Israel in its history.”
According to what the N12 channel reported, the electronic group leaked a torrent of information stored by several companies belonging to millions of Israelis, as it succeeded in penetrating the systems of a website hosting company and accessing personal data belonging to a series of Israeli websites.
It was noted that any leaked database often contains emails, names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, purchases, and sometimes also customers' private business transactions.
According to estimates, the information that was leaked is, according to the definition of the Internet world, “pure gold.”
In a related context, data from the National Cyber System showed that more than 2,000 references to various incidents of leaking personal information were monitored during the past two months since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, that is, a 10-fold jump compared to normal days, as hackers can use this information. For more attacks.
While investigations indicate that additional groups of hackers participated, in some cases, in these cyber attacks.
Italy, France and Germany call on the European Union to impose sanctions on Hamas and its supporters
Italy, France, and Germany called on the European Union to impose sanctions on the Hamas movement and its supporters, according to a letter sent by the foreign ministers of the aforementioned countries to the European Union Foreign Policy Coordinator.
The letter published by Reuters said: “We express our full support for the proposal calling for the establishment of a dedicated sanctions regime against Hamas and its supporters.”
She added: "The rapid adoption of the sanctions regime will enable us to send a strong political message about the European Union's commitment against Hamas and our solidarity with Israel."
The United States announced the imposition of sanctions on ten members of Hamas and its financial network in Gaza, Sudan, Turkey, Algeria, and Qatar.