July 19, 2022
Lithuanian ad website suffers cyberattack, customer info exposed
Data of thousands of customers might have been leaked after the Lithuanian ad website alio.lt was hit by a cyber attack on July 14.
Alio.lt is owned by Estonia’s Ekspress Grupp, which also owns delfi.lt news website.
Kristijonas Ĺ iaulys, head of IT at alio.lt, reported in a press release:
It looks like it might have been yet another Russian attack against Lithuania’s online space, a kind of attack, which the majority of business entities appear unable to resist.
It is not yet possible to specify the precise quantity of data that has been extracted. We have notified the State Data Protection Inspectorate, the Computer Emergency Response Team, and the police about the incident. Investigations will follow.
Threat actors tried to extract data of 345,000 users from the database of the site during the cyberattack.
The portal stressed it did not store particularly sensitive information, such as bank account and payment card details, personal ID codes, and home addresses in its database.
Tge other day, Israel's Health Ministry site faced disrupted access to users abroad due to a hacker attack, according to the ministry report.