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Groupon Israel Was Hacked By Pro Palestinians

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An Israeli site reports that Groupon says that there is no danger for credit cards. They were stored on a different server.

http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3588115,00.html

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>And let know that the possible options before the Zionist soldier entered Gaza are four options, no more! 1- Either will be killed 2- or will be captivated 3- or will be handicapped 4- or will be mentally ill

>We Muslims are people who love to drink bloods. And we learn that the taste of your blood is delicious !!

Who are these morons?

EDIT: The title should be changed. some Pakistani kids seem to claim responsibility, not Palestinians. Also "Pro"? Really?

Red and green, what festive colors!

Um, pro-palestinians as in "for", not "professional"

How are idiot kids (look at the text, language - and I doubt there was much skill involved) plus the defacement of a site making news?

(Disclaimer: Working for a company from IL, lived in IL, have no political opinion on the conflict itself and - our corporate site was defaced last Saturday as well, with weird bullshit in Hebrew, roughly as interesting as this submission)

Just curious, was your site hosted at the same place?

Not as far as I'm aware, no (I'm not directly involved with the operations / hosting)

A lot of time language like this is used intentionally for added effect. And then every time something like this happens "idiot kids" are derided for not having any skill. Yet a company like Groupon with salaried technical engineers failed to defend themselves. If we're defending our networks against idiot kids then we're covered, but if we take away from this that sometimes there are some skilled individuals involved, maybe we will take security a little more seriously.

Also it probably helped that there has been a lot of talk recently about this area in the news, in this article making it to the front page.

This was actually an attack on the Israeli infrastructure. The registrar was hacked. All of the domains registered there (cnn.co.il, microsoft.co.il, skype.co.il, etc) were also returning the same response.

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