In recent hours, Iranian organizations have issued a statement regarding the hacking of tourist sites.
According to their publications, this is a hack into the websites of the Dan hotel chain, Isrotel Trivago and more.
According to reports from the sharpboys attack group, they were able to reveal information of about 120,000.
Use the sites in question, but at the moment it is not clear whether credit information or sensitive information was also leaked.
In conversations with officials in the hotel chains, they say that they do not know what it is about and that they have not experienced a hack into the systems.
It is important to emphasize that there have been cases in the past in which Iranian attack groups claimed to have succeeded in breaking into the systems of Israeli bodies even though in practice this did not happen.
Ram Levy, founder and CEO of Confides - the company for the protection and management of cyber crises: "The attack group SharpBoys recently announced that it managed to break into the sites of Isrotel, MiniHotel, Trivago, and the Dan hotel chain and steal information amounting to 120,000 records. The information includes names, email addresses A few weeks ago, she managed to break into the Gol tourism agency and shut down the agency's sites, including hotel4u.co.il. The issue is being investigated by the authorities. "
Due to the tourist season in Israel, some of the Iranian attacks are aimed at the tourism sector in order to produce the widest conscious effect.
Organizations in Israel do not have much choice in the face of these attacks but to defend themselves and make sure their cyber defense is good.
These include: software updates, including sites that are vulnerable to attack, protecting e-mail, verifying backups and correctness, performing information security monitoring on an ongoing basis, and making sure the organization has a company that will manage the crisis if necessary.
Companies that hold a lot of personal information are advised to make sure that they meet the information security requirements of the Privacy Protection Authority in order to avoid violations of the law.
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