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He said there is also no reason to fear right now that people could suffer direct financial losses as a result.
“The data that was stolen would not be enough to commit certain financial crimes (misappropriation of money from a bank account or take a loan in a foreign name – BNS), but this is according to preliminary information”, Raimondas Andrijauskas, VDAI director, said during a press conference on Wednesday.
On the other hand, he stressed that the specificities of cybercrime are such that it is sometimes difficult to even imagine for whom one or another information can be used.
“For example, a phone number may have been used to impersonate you with other information, and an email address may be used to send you a malicious email,” said the inspection chief.
“There are many ways that one or another piece of information about you can be used, so it is difficult to predict. It may even depend on the imagination of the programmers,” he said.
“It is difficult to predict those consequences,” said R. Andrijauskas.
For his part, he advised CityBee customers to be more cautious at this time and to be suspected of seeing unclear letters, calls or short messages received.
“We suggest certain steps: If you notice unusual activity or something that doesn’t match your account, just update your settings, provide dual authentication, check multiple channels to reset your password, etc. to reduce that risk,” said the VDAI chief .
He reported that the car-sharing company CityBee, from which about 110 thousand people were robbed on Monday. The data of registered users in Lithuania have not yet submitted an official notification of the event to the Inspectorate. Therefore, according to R. Andrijauskas, many questions related to the event remain unanswered.
SDPI itself received more than 2,400 messages from people on Wednesday.
The Inspection Director stated that there was probably no such data breach in Lithuania. He expected the investigation to take less than the six months allowed by law.
“We will try to do it faster than in four months,” said R. Andrijauskas.
VDAI launched an investigation into the theft of data stolen from CityBee users on Tuesday.
According to the company, criminals posted consumer data from three years ago on one of the hackers’ favorite forums.
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.
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