Antanas Aleknavičius, head of the Lithuanian National Cyber Security Center, said after another large-scale data leak that there were no coordinated attacks against Lithuania.
Lithuanian authorities reported on the 10th of June that 62,000 records stolen from the State Healthcare Accreditation Agency, which contained personal information about doctors. In May, more than 600,000 files with information about real estate were leaked from the Center of Registers.
Aleknavičius noted that they are considered separate and unrelated incidents – both the type of attack and the manner of its execution were different: “Vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the system were exploited.”
Authorities are currently assessing the scale of the vulnerabilities and whether the same vulnerabilities can be used in other systems. Aleknavičius said
the agency had received initial reports and was examining the data to determine the seriousness of the threat.
The agency learned of the incident on the night of the 10th of June and immediately registered it, and further procedures prescribed by law were followed.
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office launched a pre-trial investigation into the theft of data from healthcare system employees on the 10th of June.
The leaked data also includes information on the qualifications of administrators of 156 healthcare institutions, as well as technical metadata from the systems.
Read the full article in English here: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2956259/no-sign-of-coordinated-attack-lithuanian-authorities-say-after-another-cyber-incident
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