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“Over the weekend, we experienced a cyber attack, and it mainly targeted our internal systems – this is a different case than we saw before with CityBee, Olybet and Vilnius College, where the attacks targeted the extraction of personal data and In our case, the systems were attacked, and for security reasons we had to shut them down and disconnect them from the network, so now we are managing, conducting an internal investigation, delivering documents to the relevant institutions – the police and the Cyber Nacional. Security Center “, said I. Cikanaitė to the portal.
According to her, in the opinion of the commission formed, Lithuania is in the crosshairs of programmers, especially after the CityBee case, who see that there are many loopholes and that we are all vulnerable. “We are fortunate to have good protection and to be informed quickly, so we have violations, but they are easily fixed with the help of backups,” said the communications manager of VGTU.
According to her, the user’s data was not affected, but the attack was carried out by well-prepared people who attacked the systems with great determination and sought to make money in this way. According to I. Cikanaitė, to her knowledge, more Lithuanian companies suffered such attacks from Saturday to Sunday.
It has not yet been possible to determine where the attack came from.
