In Latvia’s largest ever leak of confidential info, a total of 7.4 million of tax documents were stolen from the server of the country’s state revenue service, the country’s media said.
The LTV1 channel said in its De Facto program on Sunday evening that unidentified people received access to documents on incomes of the country’s top officials, including the presidential administration and other state structures.
A previously unknown U.K.-based organization 4ATA, established “to fight for a better future of Latvia,” claimed responsibility for the leak.
The group said one of software developers involved in the project told them about a bug in the program, which allowed easy access to the database. The group’s activists had an opportunity to download confidential files for about three months.
The group said it might later make public names of tax offenders as well as info on suspicious deals and incomes of state officials.
