Iranian hacker group claims breach of Israeli Knesset website
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An Iranian hacker group known as "Promised Revenge" claimed responsibility on Saturday for breaching the infrastructure of the Knesset website. The group, posting on their Telegram channel, asserted that they had stolen sensitive data and sent mass SMS messages to millions of Israeli citizens. To substantiate their claims, the hackers released screenshots they claimed were from the Knesset’s internal network, though they did not provide further details to confirm the screenshots.
The nature of the attack and any impacted individuals are not disclosed.
A spokesperson for the Israeli parliament refuted these claims, stating that no data was obtained by the attackers. The spokesperson clarified that the website primarily hosts public information as part of the Transparent Knesset initiative and is isolated from other internal networks.
The spokesperson emphasized that the Knesset’s Cyber Department had detected the hacking attempt and successfully blocked it in real-time. The Knesset website was briefly unavailable, displaying a maintenance message during the disruption. This outage was not the first of its kind in recent weeks, with the site previously showing similar messages and blocking access.
