Pro-Israel hacker calls a cyber truce
‘Hannibal,’ now a legend among Israel’s cyber-defenders, releases 100,000 Arabs’ Facebook account details and claims to have millions more
Pro-Israel hacker Hannibal declared a truce in the unofficial Israeli-Arab cyber war Saturday night, immediately after releasing the details of no fewer than 100,000 Facebook and email accounts belonging to Arabs.
Those details were just a drop in the bucket of information Hannibal claims to have on Arabs who live in the Middle East and elsewhere. According to Hannibal, he is in possession of 30 million email accounts, 10 million bank accounts, and 4 million credit cards, which he said he would release to the world if Arab hackers continued to attack Israeli websites.
For now, though, Hannibal is taking a break – and he has asked Israeli hackers with whom he is working to take a break as well. “Because I noticed that lately the Arab hackers are gone, I declare cyber war termination,” Hannibal wrote in a message Saturday night. “Israeli hackers, stop! Cyber war stops until further notice. I will post again if they attack the State of Israel.”
Saturday night’s leak wasn’t the first by Hannibal and other Israeli hackers; over the past week, thousands of Facebook and email account details, as well as information on 4,500 credit cards – complete with names, numbers, and security codes (the three-or four-digit number on the back of the card) – were revealed.
Little mention has been made in the Arab media of Hannibal’s exploits (although the tech sites are all over the story), but Hannibal, who boldly publishes his email address in messages, said he “received thousands of emails from Arabs who are begging me to stop publishing their bills and hurt them.” That’s exactly the reaction he’s looking for, he wrote. “I post this 100k accounts list because i want show the my huge strength. The Arabs should learn a lesson and know not to mess with me.”
Nor with Israel, which Hannibal is looking after, cyber-style. “Jewish people named me as the general of Israel’s hackers,” and he plans to remain on watch – just in case. “If they appear again, I again come to save Israel,” Hannibal writes. “Trust me. I’ll always be around.”
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