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Who Hacked Hizbullah's Bank Account?
(Ha'aretz) Avi Bar-Eli - A video recently uploaded to YouTube documented a cyberattack that exposed information on 100,000 account holders at Lebanon's Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Qard Al-Hassan benevolent loan association. It also revealed the names of 200,000 borrowers, details on loans taken in 2019-20, and information about accounts Al-Qard Al-Hassan has opened at banks in Lebanon and Europe despite U.S. sanctions. The hacker in the video asserts, "Al-Qard Al-Hassan isn't a charitable organization, it's Hizbullah's bank." "It significantly undermines the security of the people who opened accounts there," said Uzi Shaya, a former Mossad official. "They will now be labeled as Hizbullah supporters and this could harm their ability to conduct financial affairs....Al-Qard Al-Hassan is the institution that today manages Hizbullah's budget....It pays the salaries of operatives and even issues them credit cards," said Shaya, who had been head of Harpoon, a Mossad team formed to locate Hizbullah's money sources.