Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority announced the launch of an investigation into a massive data leak by a website for a mobile phone app used by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party, just weeks before the country heads to the polls for the third general election in less than one year.
The Likud uploaded the entire Israeli national voter registry — including personal data such as full names, phone numbers, addresses and national ID numbers — to the website of an app called “Elector.” The app is designed to communicate information to voters ahead of the March 2 elections.