"If Israel will act out against me, I will increase the rate at which I expose Israeli credit card information, leaking 500 every day," alleged Saudi hacker "0xOmar" said Sunday. Currently 0xOmar is said to be releasing the account information of some 200 Israelis each day. In a dramatic development it was confirmed Monday that the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al airlines had crashed Monday morning, less than 24 hours after 0xOmar threatened to hack them. The cyberwar erupted two weeks ago when the Saudi hacker allegedly leaked the credit card details belonging to 15,000 Israelis. An Israeli hacker calling himself 0xOmer proceeded to retaliate, exposing the credit card information of hundreds of Saudi citizens, sparking a tit-for-tat exchange in the days that followed. The alleged Saudi hacker 0xOmar has since given a video interview which aired Sunday on the Channel 10 late night show "Zinor Laila" ("Night Tube"), where he vowed to take his cyberwar to the next level. The hacker agreed to the interview under the condition that his voice would be disguised, his answers would be pre-recorded and his image not shown so as to protect his identity. The clip began with 0xOmar declaring that "this is the beginning of a cyberwar against Israel, you are not safe anymore. Let's hack Israeli shopping websites ... Let's hack Israeli military websites and publish their sensitive hidden information." "Let's destroy Israel in the cyberworld, it will come to the real world also," he added. Many pro-Palestinian hackers have emerged since the initial massive credit card leak occurred, with Hamas voicing its support of their hacking efforts. "Infiltrating Israeli websites symbolizes a new form of electronic resistance and warfare with which to counter the Israeli occupation," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told reporters in the Gaza Strip. According to the Channel 10 broadcast, 0xOmar has launched his own website with a forum called "0xOmar Cyber Intifada." The Saudi hacker has singled out Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon as his number one target, saying, "I send my thanks to Gaza hackers who have successfully hacked stupid Danny Ayalon's website ... Danny Ayalon, I am here, waiting for you." The Saudi hacker went on to taunt Israeli hackers who might try to engage in retaliatory cyber warfare, saying, "They cannot even find a hacker who's making a headache for them daily ... my message to stupid Israeli hacker .. .first of all you cannot even publish working single Saudi credit card." The hacker had previously stated that the Saudi credit cards leaked by the Israelis had all expired. In the video interview, which aired the night before the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Israel Airlines websites were breached, 0xOmar said he had recently joined forces with a group of hackers called "Nightmare," and declared that he planned to take down the websites.
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