JERUSALEM: Hackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defence ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli data protection expert said on Monday.
"At the beginning of this month a number of mails were sent to a number of companies in Israel, including security organisations," Aviv Raff, chief technology officer at Israeli cyber security firm Seculert told army radio.
"There was an attachment... and whoever opened it was infected with a virus, a Trojan Horse, which allowed the attackers to control those computers. One of the computers belonged to the Civil Adminstration," he said in reference to the defence ministry department, which is staffed by the military.
Asked to comment on the report, the military said in a written statement to AFP: "The reports of the incident are currently being looked into."
Raff did not identify the source of the attack but the radio said it was "apparently from Gaza" and added that 15 Israeli computers were targeted.
It said that only the Civil Administration's public network was affected and that no classified communications were compromised.
Raff said that the virus allowed the attacker "complete control of the infected computers. The attackers could carry out any operation within that network."
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