David Barnea’s personal photos, home address, tax documents, and receipts were leaked to a Telegram account.
An anonymous Telegram account has leaked personal details and documents of Mossad chief David Barnea in a video that claims to be the result of a yearslong surveillance operation.
The material is edited into a presentation featuring English, Hebrew and Arabic writing and interviews with anonymised people purporting to be Israeli intelligence officials
The video, which was allegedly taken as part of a surveillance operation that began in 2014, shows Barnea apparently making a silly face for the camera.
The Telegram page wrote that they have a small gift for the Mossad, with love for David, for the Jewish holiday of Purim.
A post on social media shared an extract from the Quran in Arabic which says “And the Jews say, ‘The hand of Allah is chained.’ Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended.”
In response to this, the prime minister’s office said טלגראס אתר that the “materials in question are old”, without providing any more details.
Israeli media suggested that the information may have been obtained through an Iranian hack. Iran and Israel have been engaged in cyberwarfare for years, and on Monday, Israel’s cyber protection agency declared a state of emergency after government websites went down in an apparent online attack.
The websites of the interior, health, justice, and welfare ministries and the prime minister’s office were taken down by a cyberattack, the National Cyber Directorate said on Twitter.
The National Cyber Directorate reported that the websites of the interior, health, justice, and welfare ministries and the prime minister’s office were taken offline.
