Lithuania’s head of the Criminal Police Bureau Arūnas Maskoliūnas has confirmed that hundreds of thousands of records from national registries were stolen using accounts linked to the Migration Department.
“The information mentioned in the media regarding the Migration Department is true,” Maskoliūnas told reporters on Tuesday.
The confirmation comes amid an ongoing investigation by Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office into unauthorised access to state-managed databases and the alleged leak of more than 600,000 records.
Meanwhile, Lithuania's Migration Department confirmed that not a single employee of has been suspended at the agency.
"No staff have been suspended at the Migration Department in connection with this incident. The pre-trial investigation is establishing the true role of the institution and its employees, and suspension from duties is not always a proportionate measure at this stage of an investigation," the department said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
