Yemen Cyber Army (Target List)

SAN FRANCISCO — The first tweets appeared on April 14. The website of Al Hayat, a pro-Saudi newspaper, had been hacked, its front page replaced to threaten Saudi Arabia against getting involved in Yemen’s growing civil unrest. A group calling itself the Yemen Cyber Army took credit for the hack. Few took notice — amid the breaches of government databases and hacking armies with groups claiming affiliation with groups like ISIS, the takedown of a newspaper website was hardly news.

Yemeni hackers have allegedly released thousands of top secret Saudi Arabia documents, including spies' identities, after gaining “full control” of over 3,000 computers and servers belonging to Riyadh's Foreign, Interior and Defense Ministries.

The Yemen Cyber Army group claims it not only has the addresses, phone numbers and emails of top Saudi diplomats, Foreign Ministry staff, secret agents and army personnel, but also got hold of classified files and correspondence of senior Riyadh officials with other countries and governments since early 1980s.