{
  "id": 12923865,
  "title": "Privacy law violated after data of 21,000 special education students leaked, Justice Ministry says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/privacy-law-violated-after-data-of-21-000-special-education-students",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-08T18:30:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-911099"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Justice Ministry's Privacy Protection Authority has found that Israel's Education Ministry violated privacy laws and data-security regulations after personal and medical information of roughly 21,000 special education students was leaked. The unauthorized disclosure involved sensitive details about students registered in the ministry's ultra-Orthodox (haredi) education district, including identifying information, home and school data, religious affiliation, and medical records specifying each student's disability. The authority classified the incident as a serious security breach, although it did not specify a fine or outline additional enforcement measures. The investigation traced the leak to May 2024, when Education Ministry employees attempted to create a digital form to facilitate the placement of special education students in the haredi sector. They inadvertently extracted sensitive data from a ministry system and linked it to the form, which was subsequently shared with unauthorized individuals. The ministry argued the leak resulted from a single permission error, but the regulator found broader failures in the ministry's management of the system, including unauthorized access to the database, lack of a compliant information-security policy, and insufficient security risk assessments.",
  "summary": "The ministry database contains sensitive information about more than 100,000 people and, under the regulations, is therefore subject to high security requirements, the authority said.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}