Albanian Prosecutors Probe Huge Suspected Leak of Personal Data

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December 22, 2021

The Tirana prosecution told BIRN that it has “started verifications” of a list allegedly containing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Albanian citizens which has been circulated on social media.

It is alleged that the data contains the monthly salaries, job positions, employer names and ID numbers of some 630,000 citizens, from both the public and private sectors.
It is suspected that the list was leaked from the tax service or the Social Insurance Institute.
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“The personal data of every citizen, which is stored by public institutions and administered in state databases, is personal, protected by law and intended to be used only for the benefit of citizens and the state only,” Meta said.
“Any other use of it is a criminal act, which endangers the social order by violating the private security of every citizen,” he added.
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If confirmed, this would be the second time in a year that large amounts of citizens’ private data have entered the public domain.
In April 2021, a few days before the general elections in the country, a database with the private information of around 910,000 voters in Tirana was leaked to the media.
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Personal and salary data for 637,138 Albanian citizens leaks online
December 23, 2021

The Albanian government has confirmed and apologized on Thursday for a data leak that exposed the personal and salary-related information for 637,138 citizens, more than 22% of the country’s entire population.

In a press conference today, Prime Minister Edi Rama confirmed and apologized for the breach.

“According to a preliminary analysis, it looks more like an internal infiltration rather than an outside […] cyber-attack,” Rama told reporters, according to the Associated Press.
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