Lithuanian interior minister summoned over alleged hacking of ministry employee accounts

Lithuania’s Interior Minister Vladislavas Kondratovičius will meet with Prime Minister Ingrida Ruginienė on Monday to explain allegations that dozens of employee accounts in institutions under the Interior Ministry (VRM) were hacked in an apparent data breach, LRT reports.

The prime minister announced the summons in a Facebook post last week, stating she had requested both an explanation and an action plan to address the situation. The move follows a report by news portal 15min that responsible agencies are investigating potential unauthorised access to around 50 employee accounts within the ministry’s IT systems.

Kondratovičius declined to confirm the exact number of compromised accounts but told reporters that no biometric data of residents had been stolen. Earlier, he acknowledged that login credentials of two Migration Department employees had been accessed in a separate breach of the Centre of Registers’ systems.

According to 15min, ministry leadership may have been aware of the incident as early as May. Ruginienė has tasked the defence minister and the head of the National Cyber Security Centre with gathering full details, assessing oversight failures, determining accountability, and implementing urgent measures to prevent recurrence.

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating hundreds of unauthorised logins and the theft of over 600,000 real estate registry records—including personal identification numbers—dating back to early 2026. The Centre of Registers first detected the breach in April but disclosed it publicly only in late May.