New details have been revealed regarding Friday's cyber attack against the TIMS, ADAM, MEMEX system, where the attack is even larger than what has been reported so far. This attack not only violated privacy, but also individual, state and national security. TIMS, ADAM, MEMEX systems were hacked by Iranian hackers and managed to get all the confidential information they carry.
The ADAM system has all the criminal charges of citizens arrested, detained, or suspected of an event. The MEMEX system has secret information on events and the Police Case Management system has all the actions taken by the police.
Although the Albanian authorities say that the systems have already been put into operation and the government claims that no damage was suffered, confidential sources from internal investigations and from Albania's partner countries tell News 24 that the TIMS system has not yet been fully taken over by Albanian authorities.
Only the national TIMS has been put into operation and the airports are working with it, while we still do not have the international TIMS system. Which means that people with criminal records from foreign countries can come to our country and our system has no way to identify them. Not only those who come from abroad (for searchers), but also those who go out are difficult to identify manually.
We recall that on the day that the TIMS system was attacked, about 200 people flew from Albania to Dubai, the country which has become a haven for Albanian crime, to escape extradition, since our country does not have an extradition agreement with Dubai.
The hackers have warned that they will continue every week with the publication of the data obtained from the Albanian systems. Not only that, but the data obtained from e-Albania they have put up for sale where one gigabyte of information is sold for 0.05 bitcoins, where in total there are about 220 gigabytes of information.
The incident takes on even greater dimensions, as News24 learns from sources from internal investigations and from Albania's partner countries that behind this cyber attack in collaboration with Iranian hackers is also an Albanian citizen, who has enabled the way to enter the system of Iranian hackers.