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Harel Insurance (Shirbit Server)

listed as Harel Insurance ( Shirbit Server ) · Claimed by Handala · listed 2 years ago

20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedDec 3, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Handala
Status
Data leaked
Country
Israel
Sector
Financial
Listed on leak site
Dec 3, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Harel Insurance is a major Israeli insurance provider. Shirbit, formerly one of Israel's largest insurance companies offering auto and government employee coverage, was acquired by Harel in 2021 and integrated into Harel's network infrastructure.

Industry
Insurance

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed breach of a major Israeli insurance company with likely access to sensitive government and military employee records. Exfiltration is claimed and data has been published. The victim serves government and military personnel, elevating sensitivity despite lack of granular proof details in the excerpt.

Handala claims to have compromised a Shirbit proxy server within Harel's post-acquisition network. The group alleges exfiltration of data from this server, though specific data types and scope are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • insurance records
  • government employee data
  • military personnel information

What the group claims

Shirbit was one of the largest insurance companies in the Zionist regime, which provided all cars and insurance for government employees and the Zionist military! This company was purchased by Harel in 2021 and its infrastructure was transferred to the Harel network in an interface-oriented manner! However, the Shirbit proxy server was hacked by Handala…

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Handala

Handala is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in May 2024, primarily motivated by financial gain with potential geopolitical overtones given their targeting patterns. The group's country of origin remains unclear, though their focus on Israeli targets alongside Western nations suggests possible Middle Eastern connections or sympathies, and it is unknown whether they operate as a standalone group or utilize a Ransomware-as-a-Service model. Limited public information exists regarding their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, or technical capabilities, though their rapid accumulation of 164 documented victims suggests they employ effective compromise techniques across multiple sectors including technology, government, energy, and healthcare organizations. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting victims in Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with additional activity observed in Iran and the UAE, indicating either opportunistic targeting or strategic selection based on geopolitical considerations. Given their recent emergence and continued victim acquisitions throughout 2024, Handala appears to remain active, though comprehensive technical analysis and law enforcement reporting on their operations remain limited due to their relatively short operational history. The group has been linked to 182 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 26, 2024; most recent post April 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • December 3, 2024Harel Insurance ( Shirbit Server ) listed by Handalaon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Handala

Handala has been linked to 182 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Handala dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Financial sector, which has 426 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Harel Insurance ( Shirbit Server ) is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Handala means Harel Insurance ( Shirbit Server ) appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Handala's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.