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According to a report released on Friday, the inspection notes that recently several people in public spaces, social networks, groups, chat sites send links to databases of various origins, photos of personal data in these databases or their own databases.
The State Data Protection Inspection also requests that such databases not be purchased.
“Such a division, which can only seem like an illustration of a conversation, can actually have more negative consequences if it is a real database made up of personal data of real people. Sharing such information in public can violate people’s rights and freedoms, and potentially cause them various damages. The distribution of a copy of a database containing personal data can be considered as illegal processing of personal data ”, informs the State Data Protection Inspection.
The distribution of a copy of a database containing personal data can be considered as illegal processing of personal data.
According to the Inspectorate, the issue of databases has especially intensified in the context of recent events.
On Tuesday night the information of about 110 thousand users of the car sharing service CityBee registered in Lithuania was leaked.
According to the company, criminals posted consumer data from three years ago on one of the hackers’ favorite forums.
In addition to the first and last names of some CityBee customers, phone numbers, email addresses, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers, and encrypted passwords were stolen.
The police opened a pre-trial investigation into the incident and other services are investigating the incident.
Among other things, Internet scammers announced the sale of more than 257.5 thousand in a forum on Wednesday. customer data of the former betting company Orakulas.
Olympic Casino Group Baltija, which acquired the company a few years ago and owns the OlyBet brand, says current consumer data is safe.
15 minutes announced on Friday that DarniPora.lt also lost the highly sensitive 400 thousand. user data.
It is true that the information about the leak of this database appeared in the forum not this week, but in August of last year, but so far it has not been noticed.
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