Israel: ‘Saudi’ Hackers Strikes again; Identity Possibly Exposed
Hacker releases new Israeli CC list
A third file containing hacked credit card details of Israelis was posted on the internet on Friday.
The new file, published in the PasteBin website, contains information from the same credit cards that was revealed earlier this week.
Bank Leumi warned that the current file might contain a Trojan horse and that people should refrain from downloading it.
This latest publication was not the work of Saudi hacker xOmar 0, but another individual, who used the information contained in the files published earlier.
In a message, the perpetrator identifies himself as hacker ‘X,’ and says he belongs to Group-XP, which xOmar 0 also belongs to. It is still not clear whether the same person was responsible for the first two files that were published earlier this week.
xOmar 0 responded on Friday evening, saying that this was not the list that he has in his hands. ‘My list contains details of 1.1 million credit cards, and has not been updated since Thursday. I don’t publish viruses, and I don’t know the person who published this list,’ he said.
xOmar 0 said earlier this week that he had revealed information including credit card details, personal addresses, names, phone numbers and ID numbers of individuals listed on the website, One.co.il.
Israeli credit card companies said Monday that the list is repetitive and only includes 14,000 Israelis.
Meanwhile, an Israeli student claims to have identified the hacker ‘0xOmar’ originally behind these events, claiming that ‘0xOmar’ s actually a 19-year-old from Mexico.
Saudi Hacker’s Identity revealed?
Busted? Amir Phadida, an Israeli student, said he has uncovered the identity of “0xOmar”, the hacker who leaked the personal details and credit card numbers of tens of thousands of Israelis last week.
If the claim proves true, the man behind the latest identity theft panic is not an experienced and shrewd Saudi intelligence agent, but rather a 19-year-old café employee from Mexico.In a blog launched by Phadida, he writes: “The not-so-smart hacker made many mistakes. His biggest mistake was communicating with Israeli media outlets through a particular email address.
“Using this email address and some spare time, I embarked on an eight-hour journey and at the end I managed to reveal the identity of the hacker by collecting information that was scattered all over the internet, piece by piece – like a puzzle,” he wrote.