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The letter, which was also received by lrytas.lt, announces that the names, surnames, personal codes and addresses of the students have been leaked, reports the portal.
“We would like to inform you that due to a possible theft of data, your personal data has been leaked: 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, when we have additional information, we will notify you as soon as possible, “the letter reads.
Dovydas Buslavičius, the acting head of the institution’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 just can’t comment more on you right now. 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.
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 site studijos.liemsis.lt is currently unavailable.
In February, several possible data breaches were announced in Lithuania, the biggest response to which was the announcement of the data of 110 thousand users of the CityBee car-sharing service registered in Lithuania.
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.
The police 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 user names, 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 forum “Raid Forums”.
