Serbian Police Probe Mass Data Theft Claim

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbian-police-investigates-allegedly-largest-data-theft

Balkan Insight
12 DEC 14

Police are investigating claims by a group of hackers that they have got 
hold of data on everyone in the country.

“We have whole Serbia in our hands. We have almost all information about 
Serbian citizens, starting from their ID numbers to information on what 
they do, where they live and what are their phone numbers,” the hackers 
wrote in an email sent to the media on Thursday.

Along with this alarming message, they have attached sheets with part of 
the data they claim to have stolen from state databases.

The police department for cyber crime said the allegedly stolen data did 
not come from the police database, however.

“Police are... investigating whether the hackers have stolen the data from 
some other state institution, or from a database made by collecting 
citizens' data during a survey,” the police told Serbia's Tanjug news 
agency.

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