Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal investigation into a major data breach at the Centre of Registers (VIRC), BNS reports. The investigators said that more than 600,000 records may have been copied illegally from VIRC’s real estate and business registers. The data breach may have originated from abroad. According to 15min, the breach occurred through accounts belonging to the Lithuanian Migration Department. VIRC director Adrijus Jusas apologised for the incident, BNS reported. He said that the leaked data included people’s personal ID numbers, but assured that contact details, bank account numbers, payment information, or documents relating to property transactions or court rulings were not compromised. However, Jusas later resigned from his post after Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene and Economy and Innovation Minister Edvinas Griksas both called on him to do so.
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