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Hackers hit Israel after Hamas call

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Story Update : Tuesday, January 17, 2012    10:10 AM

The websites of Israel's stock exchange and national carrier, El Al, were hacked on Monday by pro-Palestinian hacker group, "Nightmare" , a day after Islamist Hamas called upon to instensify cyber war against the Jewish state.

The recent attack follows a wave of similar hacking attacks in which credit card information of thousands of Israelis were released by a hacker, claming to be Saudi.

"The penetration into Israeli websites opens a new front for electronic resistance and war against the Israeli occupation," Hamas spokesperso, Sami Abu Zuhri , said on Sunday. While El Al's website could not load at all, the stock exchange was only presenting trade figures, without the possibility to perform any other action.

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