The alleged leak of documents during the Vilnius NATO summit is linked to the recent hacking into Lithuanian government IT systems, the National Crisis Management Centre told BNS on Thursday.
"The police are continuing their pre-trial investigation. [...] However, the seriousness of the issue is likely to be greater than initially thought,” said Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the centre. “The extent of the damage done is still being determined."
The government chancellor has also turned to the Commission for Secrets Protection Coordination to assess the authenticity and sensitivity of the leaked documents, Vitkauskas said.
The documents were leaked on Telegram social media as the Vilnius NATO summit was drawing to a close.
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The hackers, under the name "From Russia with love", claimed to have accessed the information on the summit's security, including the names of the officials in charge, the delegations' movement routes and the security systems.
The names of snipers from the ARAS, the Lithuanian police anti-terrorist unit, were also made public, as well as the minutes of the security group meetings in the run-up to the summit.
However, some of the information can be gathered using publicly-available sources, leading to experts questioning the severity of the incident.
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