Anonymous Hackers: “@haaretzprint we are sorry , we didn’t know that haaretz is a good newspaper,we sorry about this , and be sure no one will attack u again.”
IOA Editor: In an interesting twist, rightwing extremist MK Arieh Eldad quipped that the “anti-Israel hate messages” left on the Haaretz website by the hackers “will probably become the paper’s draft editorial for tomorrow’s copy.” The only problem: no hate messages of any kind were placed on the website. [See the Haaretz story on the cyber attack, Hebrew.]
By Sefi Krupsky, Haaretz – 27 Jan 2012
www.haaretz.com/news/national/pro-palestinian-hackers-apologize-for-bringing-down-haaretz-s-hebrew-website-1.409563
The pro-Palestinian hackers that took responsibility for bringing down Haaretz’s Hebrew website posted an apology on their Twitter account on Friday.
“@haaretzprint we are sorry , we didn’t know that haaretz is a good newspaper,we sorry about this , and be sure no one will attack u again,” @AnonPS posted.
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On Wednesday, Haaretz Hebrew website was brought down in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, after hackers had paralyzed several other Israeli websites earlier that day.
The attack lasted for several hours, and the hackers then targeted the Israel Hayom daily’s English website.
The attacks saturated the websites’ servers with information such that it could not respond to legitimate internet traffic.
