[ISN] Mossad recruiting site hacked

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    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/04/1067708185977.html
    
    By Online Staff
    November 4, 2003
    
    A website run by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency to recruit agents
    was broken into by a citizen of the country, according to a report in
    Haaretz, an English daily published from Tel Aviv.
    
    Haaretz said Israel Radio had reported that the man, 23, was charged
    in a court in Jerusalem but did not mention when the website was
    vandalised.
    
    The site was set up last year, the report said, in a bid to attract a
    wider pool of applicants. In the past, the Mossad has recruited agents
    only by invitation.
    
    The site has an intro in Flash and after this runs, non-Hebrew readers
    have the choice of using a form in English to submit an application to
    join the Mossad.
    
    The report said prosecutors described the man as having deliberately
    broken into the system in what was described as a sophisticated
    attack.
    
    The man's defence attorney said he just wanted to make sure that
    whatever he was submitting in his application was secure and would not
    fall into the wrong hands, the report said.
    
    
    
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