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The Vilnius College administration informed their students by email, where they also reached the editorial office of the portal tv3.lt.
It reads:
“Hello Vilnius College students, we would like to inform you about the possible data theft. Your personal data has been filtered: name, surname, personal identification number, address. The data was leaked from the service provider, not from the Vilnius College databases.
An investigation is currently underway and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
RaidForums, the same forum where the leaked CityBee user data was posted, also reported information about another hack this week. The forum reports that data has been leaked from the Lithuanian Studies and Sciences Information System (LieMSIS).
According to the forum member, who is presented on behalf of H3r0ES, the data of a Lithuanian university student is for sale. The forum says that it is possible to buy 7 thousand. student data.
According to the programmer, who allegedly reviewed the data, the submitted database contains the students’ names, surnames, addresses, personal codes, study programs, and other information.
In the same forum, H3r0ES programmers still announce that they will have 100,000. e.health user data.
The incident could have happened
Dovydas Buslavičius, Head of Vilnius College’s Public Relations Department, confirmed to BNS that the incident may have occurred.
“I can confirm that we have informed the students about the possible theft of data, we have sent them a letter (…) We are currently working on these matters, and with lawyers (…). I can’t comment on anything else at this time. There is a possibility that it was done, “said D. Buslavičius on Saturday night.
He added that the data was not leaked from the university’s databases but from the service provider and an investigation is underway. He made no comment on whether to contact the police, but promised to provide more information in a separate report as soon as it became available.
D. Buslavičius told BNS that in the letter, the university informed the students that the data containing the first name, last name, personal identification code and home address may have been leaked.
Threats are threatening
Portal 15min.lt notes that the Lithuanian Science and Studies Information System (LieMSIS), from which data may have been leaked, is also used by other higher education institutions, including Klaipeda University, Klaipeda State College, the Graičiūnas Higher School of Management, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian Higher Education Institution, Maritime School, Alytus College, Klaipeda State College.
The studijos.liemsis.lt website is currently not available. A little earlier, readers approached 15min, stating that the person who introduced himself as a Raid Forums program on the forum announced that he would have about 7,000 people. Lithuanian students personal data.
The person who introduced himself as a programmer assures that this is a warning to the Lithuanian authorities that the Constitution should not be modified in such a way as to force those who wish to work to carry out tests for COVID-19. According to the programmer, if the Constitution is violated, not only the databases of universities and colleges will be leaked, but also the data of esveikata.lt.
The portal adds that there were no changes to the Constitution related to coronavirus testing in Lithuania.
In February, several potential data breaches were announced in Lithuania, the largest response reported by 110,000 registered Lithuanian CityBee car-sharing service users.
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.
Police have also launched a pre-trial investigation into the leaked data from the dating site darnipora.lt. Information about 400 thousand. The data leaked by darnipora.lt users appeared on the Internet forum “Raid Forums” last August, but has not been detected so far.
The data, including usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords and other personal information, is indicated as from 2016, its sale price is not published.
The police are also clarifying the situation with the data of the clients of the former betting company Orakulas put up for sale.
Information about all this leaked data appeared on the same online “Raid Forums” forum.
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