Residents found out about the data of the real estate register massively pumped from the beginning of this year until May only on the evening of Friday, May 22, when it was announced 15 minutesand soon the General Prosecutor’s Office. Although the original “end of the thread” of this story was discovered at the beginning of April.
Law enforcement and politicians confirm that the real estate registry was hacked using the e-mails and passwords of at least two employees of the Migration Department, and more than 600,000 records collected from January to April.
Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė admitted that she learned about the data leak on April 3, and the prosecutor’s office started a pre-trial investigation in mid-April.
Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė testified that the public was not informed about the incident all this time in order not to harm the investigation, but the Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė denied this: she assured that the Registry Center has been allowed to inform the public since May 8.
It turns out that the Registry Center did not do this immediately due to technical and legal reasons, after consultations with the State Data Protection Inspectorate.
I. Ruginienė and three members of her cabinet were also silent about the incident.
True, the prosecutor’s office planned to present the information even later than it did, but it was rushed to distribute it after realizing that it would be published in the media.
15 minutes the latest detailed chronology collected shows which institutions learned about the incident and when, how long it took to react to it, and what were the reasons for such a reaction.
