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Mossad

bd_7d42fe3e56d10007 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Mar 17, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Mossad2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Handala on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Not FoundDiscovered: 2026-03-17

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Today, a shadow has been lifted from one of the darkest layers of the Israeli intelligence and security apparatus. In a sophisticated operation, Handala Hack succeeded in breaching the email systems and confidential data of Ilan Steiner, former Budget Director of Mossad and current Chief Financial Officer of Israel’s National Security Institute, the research and...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 17, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-05

handala

According to ransomware.live, Not a Ransomware Group

175 victims claimed globally175 tracked hereFull profile →