Lithuania: No Coordinated Cyber Attack, Investigators Probe Healthcare Data Leak
Lithuanian authorities say recent cyber incidents are isolated, not part of a coordinated attack, after a breach leaked 62,000 doctors' personal records. A pre-trial investigation has been launched.
Lithuania's National Cyber Security Centre (NKVC) has stated that the country's institutions are not facing a coordinated cyber attack, following a large-scale data leak affecting healthcare workers. NKVC head Antanas Aleknavičius told reporters on Wednesday that the incident, which exposed 62,000 records containing personal details of doctors from the State Health Care Accreditation Agency, is considered separate from a previous breach last month that leaked real estate data of over 600,000 people from the Centre of Registers.
"We consider these to be separate, isolated incidents," Aleknavičius said. "The nature of the incident and the way it was carried out are different. Vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the system were exploited."
Authorities are currently assessing the extent of the vulnerability and checking whether it could affect other systems. The NKVC chief noted that initial reports were received overnight and immediately registered, with the agency following legal procedures.
Meanwhile, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office opened a pre-trial investigation into the theft of healthcare workers' data. Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė confirmed that a report from the Health Ministry triggered the investigation into unauthorized access to information systems. The compromised data also includes training qualification information of administrators from about 156 healthcare institutions, as well as technical system metadata.
