Lithuanian authorities are investigating an alleged data leak on the NATO summit
In Lithuania, the security authorities are investigating an alleged leak of information on the organizational processes of the NATO summit in Vilnius. According to their own statements, the secret service and the police of the Baltic EU and NATO country are checking publications on social media on Wednesday, according to which a group of hackers is said to have gained access to non-public information about the top meeting of the western military alliance.
According to media reports, these include information about the security measures at the meeting, the names of the officials responsible for security and the itineraries of the delegations.
According to the reports, the almost 30 published documents, the authenticity of which has not yet been confirmed by the authorities, also provide information about the hotels in Vilnius in which the heads of state and government and their delegations stay in Vilnius, their arrival times at the airports and the Names of the security forces accompanying them and their equipment.
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas downplayed the incident, saying the NATO summit was unaffected. “I wouldn’t call it NATO information, I wouldn’t call it classified information,” he said on the radio on Thursday. “Some e-mail correspondence that has been leaked, so to speak, by elementary cyber hacking methods is not a NATO secret, neither is it nor any other document.”