(The Jerusalem Post)— The information of 200 users was leaked by the Sharp Boys hacker group, with a threat to leak the data of three million people.
Cyber attack
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A hacker group called Sharp Boys announced that it had hacked two Israeli hiking websites on Saturday, leaking the information of 200 users and offering the information of around three million people for sale.
The leaked data includes emails, addresses and phone numbers.
The two affected sites were Tiuli and Lametayel.
Tiuli is a website that provides information on hiking, attractions, maps and places to sleep throughout Israel.
Lametayel is a chain of hiking and sporting goods stores and its site also provides information on hiking.
Both sites were down as of Saturday night.
A message posted by the hackers read «Hi , lametayel.co.il and tiuli.com are Hacked ! All databases are for sale.»
The hackers added that they had 500 GB of data to sell including the emails, passwords and phone numbers of about three million users.
A computer keyboard lit by a displayed cyber code is seen in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017. (credit: REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL/FILE PHOTO)
The Sharp Boys did not make or reference any demands for ransom.
It is unclear if the attack was nationalistically motivated.
The attack is the latest cyberattack to affect Israeli companies.
Last week, cybersecurity provider Check Point reported that the Iranian hacking group “Charming Kitten” or APT 35 had attempted to hack seven targets in Israel using an exploit in the open-source software logging system known as Log4j.
The attempted attacks were blocked.
In October, a number of Israeli websites were hacked by the Black Shadow hacker group, with the group leaking the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users.
Source: The Jerusalem Post, 19/12/2021
Last Updated on 19.12.2021 by iskova