Iranian hackers claim to have breached Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility

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FILE - View of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona August 6, 2000. REUTERS

(JNS) — Israeli experts are currently inspecting the authenticity of documents leaked by an Iranian hacker group which claims to have breached the Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev desert, Channel 12 reported on Thursday.

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The hackers claim to have stolen thousands of PDF documents, including invoices, email correspondence, Excel tables, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, according to an initial report, details of which are still under Israeli government censorship.

The hackers’ modus operandi fits with previous Iranian cyberattacks, Israel’s CheckPoint Software told Channel 12, in which an intimidating video is released announcing a successful hack and with the goal of sowing fear.

The hackers say that Israel needs to evacuate Dimona and Yeruham, a town less than 10 miles from Dimona, as they have “their hand on the switch,” according to Channel 12.

However, cyber security experts told the channel these claims are an exaggeration and that so far it appears the hackers only succeeded in stealing unclassified documents, if that.


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Kvetch
Kvetch
1 month ago

Nuclear facilities operate on the 80’s floppy disks to make hacking impossible. Digital records on the other hand can be stolen through hacking.

See
See
1 month ago

All the Iranian are capable of , is exactly this CLAIM that’s all ימ״ש ארור המן