Anti-Israel hackers have released extensive amounts of classified data amid Israel’s struggle to contain leaks, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Tuesday.
The leaks, according to the newspaper, involve tens of thousands of sensitive documents and emails stolen from Israeli institutions, including the Justice Ministry.
The attacks, which began on Oct.
7, 2023, have targeted a wide range of entities, from military and defense contractors to hospitals and government ministries. The scale of the breach has overwhelmed Israel’s cybersecurity infrastructure.
“The true extent of the damage to Israel’s security and economy caused by these leaks is not yet fully known,” a source close to the investigation revealed. “Despite massive investment in defensive cybersecurity measures, the scale of the leaks is likely the most severe in Israel's history -- an unprecedented looting of gigabytes upon gigabytes of information of all sorts."
The leaked data has appeared on platforms like Telegram, prompting a series of takedown attempts by Israeli authorities. However, Telegram’s limited moderation policies have complicated these efforts.
“Telegram emerged at the start of the war as a key platform utilized by Hamas' information warfare against Israel, one Israel was unable to properly address, lacking both monitoring capabilities and an understanding of the platform,” Haaretz reported.
Israeli has sought to mitigate the damage through legal measures and direct negotiations with tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Meta.
Yet the hackers have adapted by using decentralized hosting services and "onion domains" which obscure the source of the data and hinder takedown efforts.
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That might explain arresting the CEO of Telegram.
Israel controls EVERYTHING.
It's the Deep State establishment as a whole and their aligned interests: the CIA, Mossad, FBI, MI-6, NSA, etc. But as formidable as these forces are when they work together this tightly, there's still opposition from the likes of China, Russia, Iran, and other Axis powers.
But it's mostly just Israel
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It goes beyond Israel in that there is a broad coalition or network of agencies with aligned interests to control information. A kind of globalist cabal of pro-Western imperialists meeting resistance from the likes of China and Russia.
“Telegram has proved a massive challenge for Israel since the start of the war. While many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them, Telegram is considered the least cooperative of them all.”
Does Wikileaks intend to distribute these Israeli leaks? The more Israel is scrambling to hide them, the more people want to read them!
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