The Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate has started official investigations about the security leak of personal data of Alio.lt
July 19 2022 - 9:30AM
The Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate has started
official investigations about the security leak of personal data of
Alio.lt
The State Data Protection Inspectorate has
launched an official investigation due to a cyber-attack against
the online advertising portal Alio.lt that was identified last
Wednesday, 13th July 2022. Attempts were made to pull user data
from the portal database. Trying to guess user IDs and phone
numbers. A total of 345,095 users were attacked. The information
was transferred to the State Data Protection Inspectorate, the
National Cyber Security Center, the Computer Incident Investigation
Service, and the Police in Lithuania.
The users have provided their phone number,
e-mail address, and created a password to log-in, no other data is
stored by the portal. The passwords are hashed.
The attack has been completely stopped and all
measures have taken to remedy the situation. The high-level
security measures have been applied for users to continue safely
using the services of the ad portal Alio.lt.
All Alio.lt users were promptly informed about
the incident and received e-mails and SMS messages informing them
about the cyber-attack, their leaked password hashes have already
been reset. Alio.lt users are strongly recommended to change their
passwords of social networks or other accounts, because with the
former password of the Alio.lt user, hackers can try to guess the
passwords of other user accounts and reveal more personal data
about the users.
The Lithuanian advertising portal Alio.lt was
acquired by Ekspress Grupp in 2012. Alio.lt has approximately 346
000 users and it generated revenues of around 170 thousand euros in
2021. The information infrastructure of Alio.lt is separate from
other group portals.
Kaspar HanniAS Ekspress GruppGroup’s Development Director, Board
Member +372 669 8381 kaspar.hanni@egrupp.ee
AS Ekspress Grupp is the leading Baltic media group whose
key activities include web media content production, publishing of
newspapers, magazines and books. The Group also operates an
electronic ticket sales platform and ticket offices in Estonia and
Latvia. Ekspress Grupp that launched its operations in 1989 employs
more than 1400 people, owns leading web media portals in the Baltic
States and publishes the most popular daily and weekly newspapers
as well as the majority of the most popular magazines in
Estonia.
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