An Israeli hacker group called Nuclear released 4,800 pieces of credit card information belonging to citizens of Arab countries on Wednesday night, the latest twist in a cyberwar between the Jewish and Arab cyberworld. The leaked information includes credit card numbers, passwords, security codes (CVV), expiration dates and credit agencies, everything one would need to order items online with the stolen cards. The information was extracted from one of Saudi Arabia's largest banks. "It's going to be a long electronic war, but we will be victorious," a message accompanying the post said. The tit-for-tat cyberwar erupted two weeks ago when a Saudi hacker calling himself 0xOmar claimed to have leaked the information of roughly 400,000 Israeli credit card accounts, allegedly gleaned from commercial websites. Israeli authorities said that the number of accounts hacked was in fact closer to 15,000 but nevertheless, the incident stands as one of the worst cases of hacking Israel has ever faced. Since then, hackers on either side have launched retaliatory salvoes nearly every day, with more and more personal information being revealed online. Nuclear wrote that they are currently helping the Jewish hacker who goes by the alias Hannibal Lecter in responding to 0xOmar's attacks. 0xOmar was also behind the attacks that shut down the El Al, Beinleumi Banks and Israeli stock market websites earlier in the week. On Wednesday, Lecter posted in a hackers' forum the email and Facebook accounts of thousands of Arabs from a database which, he claims, holds more than 30 million accounts. Israeli officials have asked their allies for help in identifying and locating the man (or woman) behind the 0xOmar alias. In recent weeks, confidential channels have been abuzz with reports of hackings, and preparations began for a large-scale cyberattack against Israel. Immediately following the first wave of attacks, which have not yet been made public, the second wave began and is expected to peak in February. According to information security firm Maglan, the attacks have focused on a list of potential targets gathered by an international hacker group called Team Poison, which comprises more than 50 well-trained pro-Palestinian and pro-Arab hackers.
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