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Saudi and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges downed in cyber attack

posted onJanuary 18, 2012
by l33tdawg
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Israeli hackers have claimed credit for downing websites run by the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX).



The digital operation was apparently conducted in retaliation for the hacking of two prominent Israeli sites on Monday: the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and El Al (Israel Airlines). 


Saudi and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges downed in cyber attack
The hackers - who called themselves "IDF-Team" - also warned that if attacks against Israeli sites continued, they would "move to the next stage and paralyze websites for a period of two weeks to a month." As the Israeli daily Ha'aretz notes, another pro-Israel hacker known as "Hannibal" has published a list of 30,000 e-mail addresses and Facebook passwords purportedly belonging to residents residing in a number of Middle Eastern countries.

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