Cyber attack: hackers broke into the center for educational technology - information began to leak
A group of anonymous hackers managed to penetrate the website of the Center for Educational Technology - and began to leak student information.
The company's CTO: "For security reasons, we preferred to leave the systems inactive in order to prevent any security breach"
Yanon ben Shoshan
04/09/2022
Sunday, September 04, 2022, 11:28 p.m. Updated: 11:45 p.m.
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An unknown group of hackers operating under the name "The Benevolent Thief" announced tonight (Sunday) on the Telegram channel that they managed to break into the system of CET (the Center for Educational Technology).
"Finally in this period when you hurt the teachers a lot, what do you think if now we harass you?", the channel wrote.
Haniel Iloz, VP of Technologies at CET, confirmed today on his Twitter page that the systems were hacked: "Last night, during a cyber attack, a group of internal hackers infiltrated the Cet website.
As soon as we became aware of this hacker attack, we disabled the site and disabled all access to it, while at the same time returning the site to a normal state.
For security reasons, we preferred to leave the systems inactive in order to prevent any security breach caused by the subsequent cyber attacks."
"As we have seen in the previous election campaigns, this time too various attack groups are operating in Israel and are trying to cause moral harm to undermine the ruling system. From the statements it appears that this is not an Israeli group, but a group whose goal is harming the Israeli public," says May Brooks-Kempler, a cyber expert and founder of Kehilat Befarim Online In a conversation with Walla!
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"Identifying fake news is becoming a necessary life skill in the 21st century. It is recommended to examine every message that is received with critical eyes. To examine who wrote the message, whether it is a known and reliable source, whether the message makes sense," added Brooks-Kempler.
"During the holidays, it appears that a group of hackers broke into the Cet website, in the videos published by the group you can see that the group gained full access to all of the site's management systems and databases," says Tom Malka, a cyber threat intelligence researcher, in a conversation with Walla!
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"The information is currently being offered for sale on several forums at a high price. The group is trying to imply to the government that it will buy the leak itself and thus prevent the details from being leaked to unwanted parties. I find it hard to believe that their word can be taken as a promise."
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