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Vilnius College students received an email on Saturday evening. letters with a warning from the university administration that the students’ personal data had been leaked due to possible data theft: first name, last name, personal identification number, home address. After contacting the university representative D. Buslavičius, explained that the information is not a lie, the university registered a case of data leakage and informed its students about it, listed what data was leaked. According to D. Buslavičius, it has not yet been revealed where and how the data was leaked, the university launched an investigation. All that is being said is that the data has been leaked from the service provider. According to the interlocutor, when the school has more information, it will be shared.
Data from Vilnius College students leaked
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The fact that the students’ data may have been stolen was confirmed by Rita Liepuonienė, the college’s deputy director of studies, writes the lrt.lt portal.
“So far we are explaining and I cannot say anything more precisely. Our information technology center is now open, there is a lawyer involved. So far, I cannot say how and under what circumstances it happened, ”said the deputy director.
Has the university already requested information from the police? R. Liepuonienė said he had no information.
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“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 this has been done, “D. Buslavičius told BNS 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. Earlier, readers zoomed in on 15min, stating that a person who featured as a RaidForums program on the forum announced that they would have around 7,000 people. Lithuanian students personal data.
The person who introduced himself as a programmer assures that this is a warning to the Lithuanian authorities that the Constitution should not be modified in such a way as to force those who wish to work to carry out tests for COVID-19. According to the programmer, if the Constitution is violated, not only the databases of universities and colleges will be leaked, but also the data of esveikata.lt.
The portal adds that there were no changes to the Constitution related to coronavirus testing in Lithuania.
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