Personal data of Lithuanian tourists found on Russian black market
The Lithuanian news portal Delfi.lt has found that personal data of tourists from Lithuania is openly available on a Russian black-market data platform. It includes names, birth dates, phone numbers, passport details and travel information.
Personal data of tourists from Lithuania has ended up on a Russian black-market platform for trading data, where it can be viewed in open access. The Lithuanian news portal Delfi.lt reported this after conducting its own investigation.
According to the portal, the platform held people's names, birth dates, phone numbers and passport details. Information about their trips was also available.
Data of this kind makes it possible to identify a specific person precisely and to learn when and where they travelled. For that reason, such information appearing on the black market can pose a risk to the people it belongs to.
The source does not say how many people are affected, which company or database the data came from, or whether Lithuanian authorities have become involved. The report does not address these questions.
