In Israel, where homophobia is 'alive and kicking', leaking personal information of LGBTQ users can be 'severly life threatening,' says LGBTQ activist Hila Peer. Israel's justice ministry announced that Google had blocked sites of a hacking group calling itself Black Shadow, which leaked the user database of Israeli LGBTQ dating site Atraf, an attack some security experts blamed on Iran. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES