TIRANA, May 27 /ATA/ A cyberattack on the digital infrastructure of Albania’s National Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) in February did not affect the data and on the population and housing census, the INSTAT’s Director General Elsa Dhuli reiterated on Monday.
Presenting an annual report for 2023, Dhuli said that work has been launched to recover INSTAT’s systems.
“We assessed potential damages and followed the recommendations the state authorities of AKCESK and AKSH to fully recover and make entire INSTAT’s infrastructure stronger. Out of 40 infected computers, six of them were partially damaged. Census data were not affected,” Dhuli stated.
According to her, INSTAT will complete a database and make its systems fully operational by the end of this month.
Albania was hit by an unprovoked massive cyberattack in July 2022 aimed at paralyzing the country’s public services and hack data and electronic communications from the government systems.
In September, authorities announced that the systems were under attack again. On February 1, INSTAT reported that its systems were hit by a sophisticated cyberattack aimed that Institution’s technological infrastructure.
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