The Tel Aviv district attorney has charged six people with violating the Privacy Protection Law in connection with a data theft that exposed millions of Israelis' personal details, The Jerusalem Post reports. Included in the indictment is 55-year-old Shalom Bilik, a computer programmer who reportedly made copies and sold population registry data between 2005-2006 when he was contracted for computer maintenance work in the Welfare and Social Services information systems department. Nine million Israelis were affected by the data theft, their information "exposed to publication" on overseas websites and file sharing sites, the report states.
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