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And while computer security experts claim that stolen personal data is fundamentally useless and takes advantage of the fact that, say, getting a quick loan is impossible, some citizens have even proposed a driver’s license exchange.
We remind you that thieves leaked customer names and personal identification numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers, and encrypted passwords.
What Cybersecurity Experts Advised
Specialists from the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have called for passwords to be changed not only for CityBee but also for other accounts.
“Based on available information, passwords are provided in SHA1 format without additional security criteria (” salt “), so they can be automatically guessed and used for unauthorized access to accounts. Preliminary data is preliminary for 2018” said Rytis Rainys, director of NKSC.
Victims were not recommended to change their driving licenses. However, Regitra still felt the effects of the scandal.
Regitra statistics
“Analyzing the data for Tuesday and Wednesday, we see that during these days a total of 1,078 driver’s license applications have been submitted (800 of them on Wednesday). During the same period last week, the figure was 897. Thus, compared to the last few days, the growth has been remarkable, but it may have been influenced not only by Citybee case, but also on February 16, since the number of document requests tends to increase after holidays and weekends ”, said Emilija Bardauskienė, representative of Regitra.
Also, looking at an even longer period, the specialist observes that there have been similar growths. Here in February of last year, there were also days when around 800 driving licenses were applied for per day, and this year, for example, saw the most growth on January 5, 12 and February 2, when they submitted about 600 applications.
“Given the City bee The case affected about 110,000. It appears that as a result of this incident, a small number of drivers have been able to change documents during the last two days.
It is recalled that, according to law enforcement agencies, it is not necessary to change driving licenses at this time. However, if the customers so wish, the documents can be exchanged, as usual, without waiting for their expiration date ”, summarized E. Bardauskienė.
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