The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs documents have allegedly been stolen from its network and offered for sale on a data-trading forum.
- Documents from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available for sale in a cybercrime forum.
- Some of the emails contain highly sensitive information.
- The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a short statement declining to comment about the potential leak.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs documents have allegedly been stolen from its network and offered for sale on a data-trading forum.
The cache consists of 1.6 million emails comprising conversations and documents marked as highly sensitive and cosmic.
The seller also shared a list of employees at the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including personnel at some embassies.
According to the seller, the cache encloses 102 PST files (Outlook Data File) converted from OST data (Offline Outlook Data File - email backups) and is around 300GB large.
The forum user made some bold claims to drum up interest in the data. They claimed that the correspondence contained secret negotiations, conspiracy against U.S. President Biden, and “preparation for the war with Belarus.”
Last year, in November, the Ministry was the victim of a cyberattack, but it is unclear if data availability was linked to the intrusion. The attack was associated with Russia-linked threat actors.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda concludes that the two events are linked, and that nation-state hackers have stolen sensitive information from its government.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is unable to confirm the veracity of the information disseminated to the public and will not comment. We see this as an information attack by unfriendly countries” - Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is unclear how much the seller is asking for the cache, but some forum users expressed interest in buying the leak.
Earlier today, the seller declared that they were increasing the price, probably due to the higher demand for the data.
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