The hacker who published tens of thousands of Israeli credit card numbers denied
reports that an Israeli blogger unmasked his identity on Friday.

Channel
10 and other media reports said Amir Fedida spent eight hours researching the
hacker’s identity.

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Fedida said the hacker was Omar Habib, a 19-year-old
man living in Mexico with origins in the UAE. The hacker goes by the
online name of “OxOmar.”

But OxOmar later denied any connections to
Habib, describing attempts to link the two as false. OxOmar, who was originally
believed to be Saudi, dared Mossad to track him down, boasting it would be
impossible to find him.

Fedida said his research found the hacker is not
Saudi as widely reported, and the hacker committed several errors that allowed
others to track him down.

The biggest mistake was communicating with
Israeli media by e-mail, Fedida said.

The hacker is active in pro-
Palestinian Internet forums, where he posts anti-Israel messages, Fedida
added.

The credit card list published on Friday contains no new
information, but can damage computers that run it, Leumi Bank, the CAL credit
card company, and Isracard warned. They instructed their customers to refrain
from downloading the file.

OxOmar reportedly responded to reports of
another file disseminated on Friday that contained Trojan horse malware, and
denied responsibility for it.

On Thursday, OxOmar released almost 11,000
new Israeli credit card numbers and personal contact details, following the
publication of around 15,000 numbers earlier this week.

Credit card
companies were examining the latest list and were prepared to cancel any
affected cards for phone or Internet use, as well as issue new
cards.

OxOmar threatened to release many more credit card numbers, and
claimed to also be in possession of “data I have downloaded from Israeli
military contractor companies.” The message, posted on the “uncensored text
hosting” website Pastebin, contained numerous anti-Israel and anti- Semitic
references. The hacker repeatedly referred to the “Zionist lobby” and the
“Jewish lobby” throughout the post.

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