Notorious Israeli Pentagon Hacker Charged In Canadian Fraud Scheme

Ehud Tenenbaum, a 29-year-old Israeli national living in Montreal, was arrested last week and charged with theft of credit card data and fraud in connection with a $1.8 million theft from a Calgary company that sells prepaid debit cards. Tenenbaum is accused of hacking into Direct Cash Management’s computers and increasing the value of the prepaid cards; the money was then allegedly withdrawn from ATMs by three accomplices.

Ehud Tenenbaum was also the real name of “The Analyzer,” an Israeli teenager who in 1998 managed to hack into computers belonging to the Pentagon, NASA and the Knesset. He was convicted and served time in an Israeli prison. While the Calgary Herald and other sources say that authorities are trying to determine if the arrested man is the Pentagon hacker of the same name, a story from Haaretz leaves little doubt, since the hacker’s mother is quoted as accusing the FBI of framing her son.