Three of Israel 's largest companies have discovered severe security flaws within their websites . The breaches were uncovered by Israeli security firm CyberInt . It was identified that the hackers used inactive websites , such as old advertising pages , to commit information theft , allowing for the impersonation of the companies in an attempt to gain customers ' personal privacy . The firms investigated were cell phone company Cellcom , and food - category companies Coca - Cola Israel and Tnuva ; they have since corrected the problems . The events follow on from CyberInt recently helping customers , Apple and Amazon in reporting the same type of security breaches .
Three of Israel's largest companies have discovered severe security breaches within their websites. The breaches were uncovered by Israeli security company CyberInt. It was identified that the hackers used inactive subdomains, such as old advertising pages, to commit information theft, allowing for the impersonation of the companies in an attempt to gain customers' personal information. The firms affected were cell phone company Cellcom, and food-category companies Coca-Cola Israel and Tnuva; they have since corrected the problems. The events follow on from CyberInt recently helping Google, Apple and Amazon in detecting the same type of security breaches.