Security expert advises affected Israelis to change e-mails, passwords, and credit cards.
"Maglan Research Labs has collected 122,000 hacked e-mail, credit card and Paypal accounts," Maglan Information Defense Technologies Ltd. technology director Shai Blitzblau told "Globes". "We've involved Israel's security authorities. 2,100 Israeli sites were hacked in the ten days after the flotilla incident. That's extraordinary."
Blitzblau said that tens of thousands of Israeli will have to take drastic measures, including closing their e-mail accounts and opening new ones, change their passwords to their accounts at Paypal, banks, and credit cards.
Some of the more than 100,000 stolen Gmail, Facebook and Messenger addresses stolen by Turkish hackers include those of employees of government agencies and major companies. A third of the addresses were hacked from classified ads site Homeless, Chabad, and Pizza Hut Israel.
Israeli blogger Erez Wolf broke first details of the hacking on his blog We CMS. He found an Excel file with 32,530 e-mail addresses and passwords published on a Turkish forum, Cyber Warrior. The information was obtained by hackers in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident. Wolf said that the e-mail addresses included 142 addresses with an Israeli government suffix (gov.il) and 305 addresses with academic suffixes (ac.il).
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