In a massive breach, an election app named Elector in use by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party exposed sensitive personal data — including identity card numbers, full names and addresses of the country’s entire national voting registration of about 6.5 million citizens.
The Authority for Defending Privacy issued a statement Monday night that it had opened a probe into the actions of multiple parties involved in Likud’s leak of the personal information of close to 6.5 million Israeli voters, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday.
The statement said the authority would probe both the Likud officials responsible and third parties hired by the party, who had obligations to protect the personal data, the report added.