About 50 servers collapsed in a chain reaction Sunday ; The collapse came several days after a hackers' group called Anonymous threatened to attack Israel, and was therefore initially believed by many to have been carried out by this group
Several Israeli government websites crashed last Sunday afternoon, leading experts to suspect a coordinated hacker attack on the main server supporting the Government sites.
About 50 servers collapsed in a chain reaction Sunday, bringing down the websites of the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice, the Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Construction and Housing, the Ministry of Technology and Sports, the Presidential Residence, the Israel Lands Authority and the Population, the Immigration and Border Authority and the government's public payments website.
The collapse of the websites came several days after a hackers' group called Anonymous threatened to attack Israel, and was therefore initially believed by many to have been carried out by this group. However, official spokespeople say the proximity of the events is coincidental.
Official spokespeople in Israel, deny that a hacking attack brought down government websites like a row of dominoes Sunday. The spokespeople say a technical malfunction in a server common to all of the sites caused them to collapse.
