Over 600,000 Lithuanian state registry records stolen
Login credentials issued to authorised user organisations of Lithuania's state registry system were abused, and more than 600,000 records were stolen. The leaked data included names, dates of birth, national identification numbers and property addresses. Prosecutors are investigating possible foreign involvement.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Centre of Registers (Lithuania)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- More than 600,000 state registry records and data on people equivalent to around 20% of the population
- Cause / method
- Abuse of login credentials issued to authorised user organisations
- Location
- Lithuania
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Exposed dataNameAddressDate of birthNational ID number
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Timeline
- The leak of more than 600,000 state registry records and an investigation into possible foreign involvement came to light.
- It came to light that login credentials of authorised user organisations had been abused and that personal data and property addresses had been stolen.
- It was disclosed that the leak affected around 20% of Lithuania's population.
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