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Computer hack reveals identity of Syrians in contact with Israel

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Dissent

Elhanan Miller reports:

Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides.

Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge correspondence between Mendi Safadi, a Druze Israeli and former political adviser to Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara, with members of the Syrian opposition around the world, taken from taken from Safadi’s computer.

[…]

Though Al-Akhbar’s articles contain dozens of names, nicknames and telephone numbers of Syrians and others who were in touch with Safadi, he maintained they face no real danger of reprisal.

Read more on Times of Israel.

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