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'Anonymous' Hackers Claim to Have Pilfered Over 20 Gigabytes of IDF Files

Hacker collective known as Anonymous announced that it managed to breach the IDF’s cyber defenses and abscond with a vast trove of data.
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The hackers claimed in a statement that they stole over 20 gigabytes of information, including over 230,000 documents.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the video that accompanied the hacker group's statement appeared to show “excerpts from PowerPoint presentations featuring IDF personnel, with slides bearing logos of General Staff departments.”
The newspaper, however, insists that the authenticity of the documents on display could not be immediately ascertained, adding that the IDF rated the likelihood of hackers gaining access to their computers as low.
Instead, the Israeli military reportedly argued that the Anonymous statement could have been a "psychological warfare" tactic, and that if an actual breach did occur, then the hackers likely got the data off civilian computers as the IDF systems are simply too secure.
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