Hamas has detailed dossiers on thousands of Israeli soldiers as “revenge for children killers,” report claims

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- More than 2,000 Israel Air Force personnel were the subject of detailed dossiers created by Hamas as part of intelligence-gathering operations, according to a new report published on Monday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The dossiers were leaked online this week, and with them the details of the soldiers’ past and present.
Haaretz said the purpose of the reports appears clearly on their cover page: “As revenge for the killers of [the] children of Gaza.”

Each report includes the soldier’s full name, their base or unit, I.D. number, mobile phone number, email address, social media accounts, names of family members, and in some cases passwords, license plates, credit card numbers and bank account information.
The dossiers on the different soldiers, ranging in length from a few to over 200 pages long, have been circulating online for a number of months now.
Their existence was publicized again recently and they were shared with a group of international investigative reporters, led by Paper Trail Media in partnership with Germany’s Die Zeit and ZDF, Austria’s Der Standard and Haaretz.
The reports were composed of a combination of information that was leaked or taken from a hack, likely into the servers of a non-IDF website, with information also being scraped from social networks, public databases and from previous leaks.
They were produced using an automatic tool known as a profiler, which makes it possible to collect, cross-reference and fuse together intelligence from open sources (OSINT) to create a detailed “profile” on intelligence targets. In this way, sensitive personal information was collated on thousands of people who serve or served at various IAF bases.
The reports help underscore how such leaks, usually treated as a privacy issue, can quickly morph into a national security threat for Israel.
It also shows how lack of enforcement of cyber-security standards on different bodies in Israel has helped Hamas gain information which can expose thousands of Israelis to a number of different threats – from revenge, to persecution and doxxing, to being targets of advanced intelligence surveillance, to exposure to legal threats abroad – according to a number of experts who spoke with the group of investigative journalists.
An Israeli security source confirmed the reports were made by Hamas. According to Aymenn Al-Tamimi, a leading expert on jihadist literature and documents who assessed the dossiers for German-speaking media, the documents look authentic and are generally in keeping with other Hamas material and language.
A number of sources who spoke to Haaretz said the data – which also includes information on soldiers and acquaintances and relatives – can easily be used to target them or gain more intelligence and access to secrets.
According to Haaretz, the detailed reports were made after Israel’s genocide war on Gaza began October 7, but the raw information with which they were compiled is older, adding it is not clear who leaked the reports online, but they have been available on hacker platforms since at least December.
It seems that some of the information was taken from Atid College, which was the victim of an Iranian hack last May. At the time, this was one of many hacks on a non-sensitive civilian target, and the hackers even tried to sell the data online. Since then, there have been dozens of similar cases, Haaretz said.
The reports also contain data taken from other sources, for example details on vehicles, which may have been taken from the hacking of the Shirbit insurance company in 2020.
It is also possible that information from the Israeli voter registry, which was leaked online as part of the Elector app leaks, also served as a data source for the reports.
The reports were first leaked or published as an online repository in December 2023, close to the date they were created. They were then distributed online on different platforms and websites by three different hacker groups. Later, a purported Indonesian hacker group identifying as GenoSec also distributed the files, which eventually were also shared with reporters after being indexed and archived.
The data was also shared by a known hacking group called Hunt3rKill3rs, which claim to be a Russian hacking group but are suspected of actually being Iranian due to their language and focus on Israel.
Haaretz and the partners contacted several dozen soldiers whose details appeared in the reports. It seems that some of them had already been warned by some security source about the reports. Others were surprised.