'Say goodbye to your loved ones': Israel accuses Iran and Hezbollah of threatening texts
Israel has accused Iran and Hezbollah of hacking a mobile service provider and sending threatening messages to Israeli customers.Israel's National Cyber Directorate today said a flood of Hebrew-language text messages popped up on mobile phones across the country, falsely claiming to be from the Israeli Home Front Command.
"Say goodbye to your loved ones," read one of the messages, seen by The Associated Press news agency.
"Don't worry, you will hug them in hell."
Roughly five million suspicious texts were sent to Israelis last night, according to the government - which did not name the service provider or clarify if any additional customer data was compromised.
Israel's Cyber Directorate described the deluge of texts as an "unsophisticated attempt to incite public panic".
It said Israelis received three versions of the messages, all containing "harmful" links to unknown websites "rendered inactive within a short period of time".
Hezbollah and Iran have not commented.
