On Friday, sensitive information reportedly belonging to Israeli Olympic athletes was leaked online and posted on the internet, sparking concerns about privacy breaches.
A vast array of personal information, including athletes’ names, phone numbers, home addresses, login credentials, familial ties, photographs, military service records, and medical test results, has been publicly shared on the messaging platform Telegram.
The hackers also established an online presence by creating a website and Twitter account to disseminate their findings to a broader audience. The monuments have now been taken down.
The information leak, attributed to a hacking group dubbed “Zeus”, appears to be a component of an online marketing campaign aimed at intimidating Israeli individuals participating in the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris.
As attributed to postings by Zeus, it appears that a portion of the leaked information originated from a cyberattack on the Nationwide Sports Activities Centre in Israel, specifically targeting athletes’ travel documents.
Israeli athletes have made contact with each other through electronic mail.
France’s anti-cybercrime division, OCRIEST, has been entrusted with conducting a thorough investigation into the security breach, with the aim of identifying and removing the compromised information from the internet.
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