The PEOPLE Cinema platform has been the target of a large-scale cyberattack



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It covers internal systems, but user data is not affected.

“Today we have experienced a cyberattack from outside, when our system sends an email. Thousands of new users have tried to register by email. Email addresses did not exist in our system until then. The attackers used a large amount of emails consumer electronic mail database (we received more than 70 thousand requests), which were directed to our website ”, says Andrė Balžekienė, director of the platform.

All persons with email Emails were used, letters were received from the platform system requesting confirmation of registration on the “PEOPLE Cinema” website. Users who have received this message are asked not to confirm their registration. All accounts for all contacts who have approved the record but have not created or approved the accounts will be deleted.

“We do not know how this database fell into the hands of malicious people. The attack was carried out from a Latvian IP address, but we cannot verify that it is not just a cover.
We can only say with certainty that the data of our existing users is safe and has nothing to do with today’s attack, ”says Andrė Balžekienė, director of the platform.

PEOPLE Cinema has contacted the National Cybersecurity Center to investigate the attack.

In February, several potential data breaches were announced in Lithuania, the largest response reported by 110,000 registered Lithuanian CityBee car-sharing service users.

In addition to the first, last, and personally identifiable codes 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.

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