"The attack started in the prime minister, in the court and brought a big panic"/ The theft of WhatsApp causes "earthquakes" among politicians in Tirana, experts explain the details

IT experts Gentian Progni and Besmir Semanaj invited to the ABC Live studio have provided some information on the data recently published on the 'dark web' and have recommended citizens to be careful before clicking on a link.

The experts said that there was generally an agitation by citizens and officials, since in Albania they mainly work with WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the Albanian authorities are leaving it in silence, and have not come up with instructions for citizens to help them and protect them from hacking.

According to Progni, this time we are dealing with a publication on the 'Darkweb', which is a global Internet network, and which cannot be accessed by all users.

"Several data have been published since 2019, the year in which the attack started on the prime minister, then on the courts, and brought a great panic to citizens and officials, while today the post has been deleted as a post on the 'dark web', said IT expert Gentian Progni.

The post, which had since 2019 been published on the 'darkweb', contained a list of 500,000 phone numbers and was re-published by Binance's CEO.

For IT expert Gentian Progni, the publication was made by the CEO of Binance, a day after he had a meeting with the Prime Minister of Albania, Rama. We do not have any official publication or statement from the Albanian authorities. Actually, the post there was not correct and clarified, it is a user database, or a list of numbers. It is argued that it may have been just a list of numbers. It's not that it impresses anymore...' said Progni.

While the other IT expert Besmir Semanaj saw an agitation of Albanian citizens, even of Albanian politicians, the post has now been deleted, the biggest possibility could be just phone numbers, without names, without other data, this agitation, it was not seen when 4 million numbers came out in Albania'.

Currently, there has been no official reaction from the Albanian authorities.