According to her, the National Security and Defense Committee meeting on Friday will seek to find out who proposed and who made such a decision.
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“Why, during the time before the pre-trial investigation began, which started on April 15, at least the victims were not informed. It is unclear. And the feeling that has especially intensified in recent days, looking at the shifting of responsibility. And it is really a very confusing situation, but it is obvious that someone made a decision, probably from the politicians, that this story should be, well, hushed up,” she said to Žinių radijas on Friday.
“And what is worst in this reaction is that the people who were harmed, whose data was stolen, ended up in the risk zone. Obviously, if some malicious actors have a personal code, a specific place of residence, even in some cases, who is registered in that real estate, it opens huge possibilities to cause harm. And here, for almost two months, someone knew about it but did not inform, although, by the way, the laws clearly oblige to inform,” the parliamentarian added.
V. Čmilytė-Nielsen hopes that at the National Security and Defense Committee meeting on Friday, it will be possible to find out who among the politicians made the decision to keep silent about the data theft.
“I don’t know if we will hear that answer, but it is important because this is also a question of political responsibility,” said the liberal leader.
According to her, it is necessary to raise the question of why the employees of state institutions who use the Register Center’s database are not subject to the double identification requirement.
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“I think the National Security and Defense Committee will have to oblige the services, institutions, ministries to check their supervised institutions and where there are remaining gaps, to eliminate them as quickly as possible,” said V. Čmilytė-Nielsen.
As BNS wrote, the General Prosecutor’s Office is investigating possible illegal logins and the appropriation of more than 600 thousand real estate register entries, including people’s personal codes.
According to law enforcement, the logins were made from abroad by taking over the accounts of Migration Department employees.
Preliminary data shows the thefts were carried out at the beginning of this year, and the data appropriation was noticed in early April.
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