IL Social Affairs Ministry 2005 Misuse (Q13861)
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A data breach risk event
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IL Social Affairs Ministry 2005 Misuse
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A data breach risk event
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January 2005
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The Tel Aviv district attorney on Sunday charged six people, including a computer programmer formerly employed as a Welfare and Social Services Ministry contractor, in connection with a massive data theft that exposed the personal details of millions of Israelis. According to the indictment, filed in the Tel Aviv District Court, 55-year-old Shalom Bilik had access to the population registry database as part of his contract computer maintenance work in the Welfare and Social Services Ministrys information systems department. In 2005- 2006, during his time at the ministry, Bilik began to make copies of the population registry data and sold it, the indictment said. As a result of the data theft, detailed personal information on 9 million Israelis, among them minors, deceased persons and citi (English)
