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Apr. 25, 2021 12:36 PM
In recent months, Israel’s health and education ministries have been promoting a coronavirus testing program in the country’s schools in an effort to spot and curb any new outbreaks of the virus in the schools.
Dubbed Magen Hinuch, “education shield” in Hebrew, information security researchers have now found that the program inadvertently exposed confidential information pertaining to students and parents, including medical information.
The purpose of the program appears entirely appropriate, but suspicions arose after the parents of students at the school attended by the daughter of Noam Rotem - one of Israel’s better known ethical hackers - received information from the school about the program. Some of the parents became suspicious, among them the co-host of Israel’s Cyber Cyber podcast on all things hacking.