A list containing personal information for some 30,000 military and civilian Israeli pilots and flight crew may have been leaked and put online by hacker group Leak the Analyst, cybersecurity firm Varonis reported Wednesday.
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The source of the list itself was unclear, but according to the report, the information – now reportedly uploaded to the dark web – includes their full names, ID numbers, home addresses, and email addresses, and operational role – pilot, navigator, etc.
There is concern that the information includes personal details of career military and reservist flight crew, as well as that of civilian aviators.
The Leak the Analyst group has already published information from a number of sensitive sources, including the F5 security company, Rafael, Verint, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, and Thailand's state telecommunications company.
Israel Hayom spoke to Lior Chen, director of cybersecurity at Varonis, which announced the leak.
"Needless to say, information of the kind that was leaked could serve hostile entities in various ways. This is hot information about pilots, technicians, and career army people and reservists. The information we censored could be compared to LinkedIn, and reveal a lot," Chen said.
It was still unknown who had obtained the information, and whether they had ties to enemy states. Varonis had updated Israel's National Cyber Directorate, which is handling the matter.
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