The Chinese company collected data on Lithuanian officials, politicians and their environment



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In the leaked database, which was also received by LRT’s research department, between 2.5 million. There are at least 500 Lithuanian names and personal data: former and current politicians, diplomats, civil servants, judges, policemen, journalists, businessmen, representatives of culture, as well as the Catholic Church.

For example, the people on the list include politicians Ingrida Šimonytė, Remigijus Žemaitaitis, Agnė Širinskienė, Leonardas Talmontas, Eimutis Misiūnas, Naglis Puteikis, Algirdas Šešelgis, Mykolas Majauskas, and Rasa Budbergytė. Most of the intelligence refers to relatives of government officials. Attention was also paid to Lithuanian special service officials, senior officials and employees of the internal affairs system.

Most of the information collected on Lithuanians is publicly available. Part of the database shows that politicians have been interested since 2000, and the most relevant information was completed in 2017 and 2018.

According to LRT, the Australian cybersecurity firm was able to recover around 10 percent. all databases, that is, 250 thousand. surnames.

Zhenhua Data Technology, which collected the data, is linked through a shareholder to China’s state military research company.



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