VILNIUS. July 20 (Interfax/BNS) - The Lithuanian National Crisis Management Center (NKVC) has confirmed to the Baltic News Service that the potential leak of data about the NATO summit made public last week was caused by the hacking of Lithuania's government systems.
"Police are continuing a pretrial investigation, and therefore, I cannot comment on it. However, the extent of this problem is likely to be greater than originally thought," NKVC chief Vilmantas Vitkauskas said.
"Indeed, a cyber-incident was recorded, but the extent of the damage has yet to be determined," he said.
"Certain weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the systems were exploited," he said.
The chancellor of the Lithuanian government has requested that the Commission for Secrets Protection Coordination assess the authenticity and sensitivity of the published documents, he said.
"The institutions whose documents were made public have been asked to evaluate whether they have been disclosed fully or partially, with some falsification involved," Vitkauskas said.
The NATO summit in Vilnius took place on July 11-12.