Israel's Intelligence Minister has called for a truce in the burgeoning cyber war between Israeli and Arab hackers.
Dan Meridor said that "individual initiatives by Israeli hackers to attack Saudi hackers, or hackers from anywhere else for that matter, are ineffective".
He said they should not be done "in Israel's name", adding that there was no evidence yet that the hackers were, as they claimed, from Saudi Arabia.
His comments came after weeks of cyber attacks, which began on January 3 when "Saudi" hackers claimed they had compromised the credit card details of 400,000 Israelis. Last week an Israeli hacker responded by apparently disclosing online personal information of hundreds of Saudis, Egyptians and Syrians, including bank details but also email addresses and telephone numbers.
