nsane.forums Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 A hacker who claims to act in defense of Israel has released 100,000 credentials of allegedly Arab users of Facebook in an ongoing row between Israeli and Arab hackers.The hacker, who goes by the name Hannibal, posted the credentials in four parts on Pastebin on Saturday as well as making the details available on 14 file-sharing sites.In a note introducing the data, the hacker claimed to have 30 million email account details, 10 million bank accounts and four million credit card accounts belonging to "Arabs from all over the world."Hannibal appeared to propose a truce, as activity from hackers targeting Israel appears to have subsided in recent days, but the hacker vowed to come to Israel's defense if needed: "If they appear again, I again come to save Israel. Trust me. I'll always be around."Emails sent to an address provided by Hannibal in the Pastebin data were rejected by the hosting provider.Since Jan. 13, Hannibal has released several batches of email and Facebook log-in details. Facebook officials said last week of one of the releases that less than a third of the credentials were valid, and half were not associated with Facebook accounts."This does not represent a hack of Facebook or anyone's Facebook profiles," according to a statement.Facebook said it validates every single log-in attempt to the site, whether the password is right or not, in order to scan for malicious activity.Earlier this month, a hacker going by the name "oxOmar" released tens of thousands of credit card numbers of Israeli citizens. Israel's Banking Supervision Department later said that only 15,000 of the numbers were active.Shortly after that release, someone going by the name Omer Cohen, or "0xOmer" on Twitter, released 400 credit card numbers and expiration dates belonging to Saudi Arabian cardholders. Omer Cohen did not publish the CVC, the three-digit code on the back of the cards, however, needed to conduct online purchases. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I hope there will be more in the future. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkInternetMail Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 @no_risk! spoken like a true KID with no real world responsibilities or valuable assests in life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 I hope there will be more in the future. :)Even if you agree with one side or the other, this type of activity is pointless grandstanding. The individuals do it only for recognition and attention. Legitimate groups tend to focus on quality of releases and keep their exploits relitivly hidden from the public. Its for the love of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 @no_risk! spoken like a true KID with no real world responsibilities or valuable assests in lifeHow do you know from my very short answer, you have no clue what i think about that, so ask before bashing around. ;)Even if you agree with one side or the other, this type of activity is pointless grandstanding. The individuals do it only for recognition and attention. Legitimate groups tend to focus on quality of releases and keep their exploits relitivly hidden from the public. Its for the love of the game.I hate Facebook, so i don`t care about ethical codes no matter in which direction. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niharjhatn Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 @no_risk! spoken like a true KID with no real world responsibilities or valuable assests in lifeHow do you know from my very short answer, you have no clue what i think about that, so ask before bashing around. ;)Even if you agree with one side or the other, this type of activity is pointless grandstanding. The individuals do it only for recognition and attention. Legitimate groups tend to focus on quality of releases and keep their exploits relitivly hidden from the public. Its for the love of the game.I hate Facebook, so i don`t care about ethical codes no matter in which direction. :)Exactly, if you were so concerned about your privacy, don't post stuff on a website that itself doesn't give a crap about your privacy.However, this guy is pretty misdirected - many of the accounts hacked are hardly arabs and this is a stupid way to try and voice a political statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosticles Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Impressive hacker there :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 How do they hack the profiles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehsan Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 How do they hack the profiles?I think you need a tutorial :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 How do they hack the profiles?I think you need a tutorial :DNo thanks :) I mean like aren't credit card details and facebook credentials be secure, and if they're secure how can they be hacked? I'm sorry if I seem like a newbie, but I'd like to know, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehsan Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 just kidding :DI'm the 1st of all n00bs :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 24, 2012 Administrator Share Posted January 24, 2012 There are many ways to do it.They look for holes in FaceBook, if found, they exploit it. Some people just find it and post it online, if one knows where to get them, he searches and then uses it to hack it. Some vulnerabilities are there, being exploited for months before FaceBook devs even come to know about or fix.Another way is phishing, I don't use all the social networking sites too much so I can't point out fingers, but there are hundreds of ways phishers fool the users. This should be the most common way a person gets all the info.There are few more ways I know about FB hacking, but remain unconfirmed for me, hence, I'll prefer not mentioning them.One of the reason I don't like FB. The the level of security and privacy doesn't match the number of users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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