The IDF’s cyber protections for certain databases for personal identification and health information of its soldiers is significantly deficient and hackers could penetrate it in order to steal identities and impersonate IDF personnel, Matanyahu Englman the State Comptroller's Report said on Tuesday. “There are serious gaps in the cybersecurity defense of biometric IDF data.”
He said regarding, “biometric data for dead soldiers, there is a risk that hackers could use such data to impersonate IDF soldiers and steal identities.”
In addition, he said that hundreds of thousands of records of soldiers' fingerprints are currently held in hackable databases.
Next, the report said that the IDF has not updated its cyber defense protocols for these databases in seven years.
Overall, the thrust of the IDF section of the report was that while traditional hard cyber targets, like weapons systems and communications, may be better protected, the IDF’s databases with personal information have been neglected.
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