Among the documents that came to light were the license plate and credit card details of an employee of the President’s residence, as well as personal correspondence and a marriage certificate. The hackers claim to have a lot of other information that could be leaked or sold in the absence of payment of the ransom.
The group responsible for the cyber attack, Black Shadow, had indicated that if the requested sum of 50 Bitcoins (or $ 950,000) was transferred to his account before Friday morning, he would not publish or sell the information. He also warned that the ransom amount would increase to 100 Bitcoins as of Friday at 9 a.m. and to 200 Bitcoins on Saturday after 9 a.m.
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In the absence of payment of the ransom on Sunday morning, the hackers had specified, the information collected would be sold to third parties.
Illustrative photo: A hacker enters a computer. (Credit: gorodenkoff via iStockPhoto)
Shirbit said in a statement that the firm “will not give in to this type of terrorism”.
On Friday, the hackers then posted thousands of photos of ID cards, medical documents, check stubs, check books and other personal customer information.
Before Friday’s deadline, the hackers issued a statement saying “Shirbit hasn’t paid us the money yet.” It seems that the leaks of private information of its customers, employees and government employees do not matter to the company ”.
Explaining Friday his refusal to pay the ransom, Shirbit said for his part that after negotiations that had lasted all night Thursday, “all the professionals concerned have unanimously drawn the conclusion that cyber-terrorism aims to cause strategic damage – and that there is no financial motivation behind these hacks ”.
The firm also appeared to imply that the attack targeted Israel rather than the company more specifically. However, in an exchange with the Kan chain, the hackers denied this accusation.
“If we were enemies of the state, we would sell the information to the enemies of Israel. So far we have not negotiated with anyone other than the company, ”they said.
For their part, the hackers released screenshots of their supposed conversations with Shirbit, which appeared to show the hackers focused on the financial aspect while a representative of the firm appeared to be engaging in futile attempts to buy time.
At 9 a.m. on Friday, the leaks began streaming through an open channel of the Telegram app.
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