Credit card hacker denies Israeli blogger unmasked him

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=252636

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV LAPPIN
jpost.com
01/08/2012

Hacker responds to reports that Amir Fedida uncovered his identity, 
dismissing them as "another Israeli failure"; blogger claims hacker made 
mistakes enabling him to trace him; file spread containing Trojan horse.

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.

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.

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