December 16, 2020 at 4:15 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News December 16, 2020 at 4:15 pm
An Israeli insurance company is being threatened by hackers who broke into the firm earlier this month and stole files consisting of personal details of its workersr and clients.
Known as The Black Shadow group, they demanded last week that Shirbit pay out almost a million dollars within 24 hours or have the information stolen from them sold online.
As the insurance company refused, the group released an image yesterday of Shirbit s CEO, Zvi Leibushor s passport and the identity documents of some of the company s clients.
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Channel 12 TV reported that Black Shadow said: The sale of the first package is finished. Now we are going to sell the second package.
The offices of Shirbit insurance company, December 4, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)
Shirbit said in response, “This is the psychological warfare we expected and is in regard to the same information that was already disseminated.”
“Shirbit’s defense systems blocked attack attempts and efforts to thwart attacks are ongoing and are coordinated with leading cyber experts and government officials,” the company said.
Black Shadow has leaked thousands of documents from the purloined hoard to the internet as a warning that it would carry out its threats. Many of Shirbit’s clients are from the public sector and images of private documents released included the vehicle registration and credit card details of an employee at the President’s Residence, as well as personal correspondence and a marriage certificate. Earlier leaks had reportedly included the personal details of the president of the Tel Aviv District Court.