Municipality of Jerusalem

Municipality of Jerusalem

Jerusalem Municipality's website suffered a data security breach that resulted in the hackers getting access to the documents containing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of residents.

The breach was discovered by a programmer while trying to help his uncle file an appeal to a parking ticket.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/data-breach-discovered-in-jerusalem-municipality-website-653085

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/municipality-of-jerusalem

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"linkid": "municipality-of-jerusalem",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2020",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"
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                                              'residents',
                        'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'location': 'Jerusalem',
                        'name': 'Jerusalem Municipality',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 'Hundreds of thousands',
                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information']},
 'description': "Jerusalem Municipality's website suffered a data security "
                'breach that resulted in the hackers getting access to the '
                'documents containing the personal information of hundreds of '
                'thousands of residents. The breach was discovered by a '
                'programmer while trying to help his uncle file an appeal to a '
                'parking ticket.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal Information'],
            'systems_affected': ['Website']},
 'title': 'Jerusalem Municipality Website Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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