What distinguishes this plan when compared to previous attacks is that it really seems to be organized by Anonymous-affiliated groups from around the world in what looks like a joining of forces. It was reported that as part of this “operation,” details of some 600,000 users of Walla’s email were exposed in addition according to the then finance Minister Yuval Steinitz “Israel deflected 44 million cyber-attacks on government websites. On Wednesday 20 March 2013, cyber-attack crippled TV stations and banks in South Korea, some for a few hours and some are still trying to come back from this attack. As many as 30,000 PCs in Shinhan Bank, Jeju Bank, Nonghyup Bank, the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, YTN and the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) had their hard drives wiped when a virus was activated at 14.00 local time on Wednesday 20 March.