From@EUvsDisinfoLast night, Russia launched one of its most brutal attacks to date, targeting Ukraine with more than 44 missiles and 160 drones. Once again, Russia showed just how little regard it has for civilian lives, targeting residential buildings, a school, and a children’s hospital. https://t.co/wJLWEJIOKK
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@JurgisLiepnieks @AndrejsUrbans No need to disinform, Jurģi... what restriction. Imposing access via smartID or e-signature is not restriction
From@JurgisLiepnieks@AndrejsUrbans well, clear, the CSDD data leak is real harm. But how would restricting access to officials' declarations help now?
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Oh no... everything is available only with authorization, e-signature or Smart-ID or otherwise.
From@Krisjanis_KThis logic is devastating: By combining CSDD's stolen data with publicly available declarations and other databases, it is possible to profile: 👮 police officers; 🪖 soldiers; 🛂 border guards; 🕵️ security service employees; 🏛️ officials and their families. Of course, all of this is possible! And it has ALL ALREADY BEEN DONE! What does restricting access have to do with it?? Then suddenly 99% of all officials will change and everything will be discreet again??
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@einemars @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ The contract has been in place since 2022 and is valid until 2027.
From@einemars@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Speaking of IT solutions, CSDD had nothing to offer or sell... There was always this TET and Kindril monopoly... that's why there are no new and modern IT security systems...
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Today's LTV Panorāma is a good example for students of what a politically engaged news segment looks like before elections. It shows the adoption of the Immigration Law in the Saeima. The central issue - debate over 'golden visas' in exchange for investment in real estate. The main characters opposing 'golden visas' are PRO and JV. NA is not mentioned at all. Even though NA spoke in the debates and for 10 years straight called on Vienotība to close this Šlesers program, and Vienotība stubbornly objected for 10 years. But LTV, of course, won't tell that, because it is a JV/PRO mouthpiece.
@lacis_normunds @JurgisLiepnieks Trump made a foolish decision, but he hasn't done anything in the U.S. armed forces - it is inherited, partly also from his first term.
From@lacis_normunds@AndrisVelps @JurgisLiepnieks Two-thirds of the professionals have left there. The U.S. will take a long time to climb out of what Trump has done.
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From@EdmundsJurevicsSupport for working parents will be maintained in the future as well. Thank you for the unanimous support for this initiative at today's extraordinary Saeima session.
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@RenarsKadzulis @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Thanks, because I personally delve into issues and want to know before making decisions. Everything written is my own, as is the video I made.
From@RenarsKadzulis@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Such a detailed answer from the minister is a new standard that the next ones will find hard to surpass! Thanks! LETA, LSM are no longer needed. Thanks!
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@KTrenko1157 @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ We know, it will be addressed, and KVC already has the task to review this.
From@KTrenko1157@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ smart ID only works with a personal code!!!!
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@EMEL_LV @zvejniekameita @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ That was already done yesterday.
From@EMEL_LV@AndrisKulbergs @zvejniekameita @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ A huge incident is happening, but CSDD management doesn't even understand its responsibility in it. They are used to not being held accountable for anything, so they don't even see their role in all this. Then let go of both the council and the board – if they aren't responsible for anything, why pay them a salary?
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@AndrejsDeeCee @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ There is a very interesting story, there will be separate info about TET, but everything points to very interesting oddities on the CSDD side, where TET is not involved... there will be info when there is confirming data.
From@AndrejsDeeCee@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ 'CSDD had a contract with TET for server and connection cybersecurity' then TET SHOULD have detected data leakage or suspicious network activity. Of course, the question is which products and solutions are connected, but network flow monitoring should have reported suspicious data volume.
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@pucej @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ @uldisaugulis @ArmandsKrauze Sorry, a mistake about Krauze's misspelling, it should be Uldis Augulis
From@pucej@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Prime Minister, the Minister of Agriculture in your government is @uldisaugulis, not @ArmandsKrauze
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@desdae1 @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ There will be a separate story about TET, but there everything points to interesting internal processes at CSDD, which is very interesting...
From@desdae1@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ ZZdats/Dativa + LVM + CSDD + undisclosed data leaks already form a very interesting data set. It is also unclear why TET monitoring did not detect abnormal data flow to some IP addresses in time.
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@rolandsozolins @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Sorry, mistake about misspelling Krauze, should be Uldis Augulis.
From@rolandsozolins@AndrisKulbergs @CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Krauze is no longer a minister, after all.
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@CSDD_LV @Apvienotais_ Sorry, a mistake in spelling Krauze, it should be Uldis Augulis
From@AndrisKulbergs🚨 CSDD CYBERATTACK — NEGLIGENCE WITH REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR STATE SECURITY — Today about the @CSDD_LV cyberattack, its consequences, and what must be done now. The CSDD board and council have been dismissed. Temporary management will be appointed instead, while competitions for the permanent board and council are started immediately. 🔴 WHAT HAPPENED? ➖️ On August 8 at about 3:00 AM, from Friday to Saturday, an attacker broke into the CSDD system. ➖️ The breach occurred through the CSDD MEDICAL platform, which about 200 doctors use to enter medical certificates for vehicle drivers. ➖️ The attacker operated undisturbed through the system on Saturday and Sunday. ➖️ On Sunday evening, a large-scale data download occurred. ➖️ CSDD only learned of the suspicious activity on Monday. ➖️ On Wednesday, it was established that data theft had occurred. ➖️ The Prime Minister was only informed on Wednesday at 5:00 PM. ❗ HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE AT ALL? CSDD should have had secure multi-factor authentication. But CSDD MEDICAL access was possible only with a regular username and password. CSDD had every opportunity to implement top-level cybersecurity: 💶 there were financial resources; 💻 there was IT capacity; 🧠 there were knowledge and specialists. Yet self-assurance, negligence, and arrogance toward cybersecurity risks have led to one of the most serious data leaks in state possession. It threatens not only people's privacy but also the security of citizens, businesses, and the state. 📂 WHAT DATA HAS LEAKED? A very large volume of data is concerned: ➖️ data of approximately 1.3 million private individuals; ➖️ data of approximately 200,000 companies; ➖️ payment information for the period from 2008 to 2026; ➖️ first name, surname, or company name; ➖️ personal code or company registration number; ➖️ declared address; ➖️ vehicle state registration number. I do not understand why CSDD needed to store payment data since 2008 on its servers at all, if the regulatory acts do not require such storage. 🛡️ WARNINGS WERE THERE. THEY WERE NOT USED. CSDD had a contract with TET for server and connection cybersecurity, but not for the protection of CSDD's own application and software. Moreover. https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 had already offered from January to April 2026 to install its sensors that automatically identify suspicious anomalies in the network. The CERT measure is free. CSDD refused it. ⚖️ A submission has been filed with the prosecutor's office for possible negligence or wrongdoing. Law enforcement authorities must now establish the responsibility of each official. ✅ WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? I have issued a Prime Minister's resolution with 12 specific tasks for ministries and state institutions. Key ones: ➖️ CSDD must inform every affected person and company, indicating what specific data has leaked. ➖️ https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 sensors must be mandatorily installed in all critically important state systems so that anomalies are identified in a timely manner, not several days after the breach. ➖️ All critical infrastructure and sensitive data institutions must carry out full-scale intrusion simulations, i.e., penetration tests, to really test system resilience and find weaknesses before an attacker does. ➖️ Instructed to assess the possibility of restricting the freely accessible e-CSDD vehicle number plate check tool. ➖️ Instructed to assess how quickly state systems can abandon the use of the personal code as a username, moving to a more secure identification solution. ➖️ https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 has submitted a list of other state institutions that similarly refused the proposed cybersecurity measures. Next week we will go through this list. And the questions will be unpleasant. ⚠️ A MUCH GREATER STATE SECURITY RISK — declarations of officials. Individually, this data is already sensitive. But in combination with other publicly available state databases, it becomes a very effective profiling tool. The declaration information of officials in the VID system is currently freely viewable without user identification. In the era of artificial intelligence, the collection, structuring, and linking of huge amounts of data takes not months, but minutes. This means that such data can be systematically collected and regularly updated also by the services of Russia, Belarus, North Korea, or other countries. By combining CSDD's stolen data with publicly available declarations and other databases, it is possible to profile: 👮 police officers; 🪖 soldiers; 🛂 border guards; 🕵️ security service employees; 🏛️ officials and their families. This is already a national security issue. Declarations must remain accessible to the public, but I see no justification for them being mass-copied anonymously. The solution can be very simple — the information remains public, but access is after authentication, for example, with one's profile at https://t.co/2abj1S4l9U. 🌲 AND I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE @valstsmezi CYBERATTACK. From the Minister of Agriculture @ArmandsKrauze I expect a concrete answer: who in Latvian State Forests was responsible for the systematic failure to update server software, which allowed the attacker to exploit vulnerabilities? Next week I want on the table: ➖️ the name and surname of the responsible official; ➖️ an explanation of how this was allowed; ➖️ information on what consequences and responsibility will follow. 🇱🇻 WE DO NOT LIVE IN A PEACETIME DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. Latvia lives under constant hybrid threat conditions. Next to us are aggressor states that use all possible methods against our country. At the same time, artificial intelligence has made the preparation, automation, and data processing of cyberattacks much easier. Therefore, the attitude — “surely nothing will happen to us” — is no longer acceptable in public administration. Cybersecurity is not a technical matter for the IT department. It is state security. ❓ AND I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NCC NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTRE. I am interested in how it can be that the National Cybersecurity Centre, which had about 20 million euros in 2025 and about 28 million euros in 2026, has not been able to achieve significantly higher resilience of state systems against such attacks? That is very serious funding. About half of the public television and radio media budget. With such funding, there must also be a measurable result: ✅ how many institutions have actually been tested; ✅ how many vulnerabilities have been eliminated; ✅ in how many systems multi-factor authentication has been introduced; ✅ in how many institutions have https://t.co/Y2dCsXsES5 sensors been installed; ✅ how many real cyberattack simulation tests have been conducted; ✅ and who is responsible if known risks remain unaddressed for years. I have questions. And I expect very concrete answers. Cybersecurity cannot be fixed with presentations, strategies, and reports.
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@RobertsKalniņš I disagree. Kulbergs would lose nothing, possibly even gain. But he doesn't say it, so an automatic reaction is at work - better not to say.
From@RobertsKalnins@pucej Because such harsh things must not be said before elections.
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Today in the Saeima: ✅ airBaltic will continue operations. The Saeima supports attracting additional funding - https://t.co/mene3v7xgg ✅ To protect the Latgale culture center GORS, the Saeima will adopt a special law for it https://t.co/uAN9QWYpns ✅ Lenders will have to take into account the consumer's decision not to borrow https://t.co/NiLJBmJwPv
Kulbergs wants to introduce authentication for access to declarations of state officials
No funds are being invested there at the moment; there is actually a regrouping of almost worthless claims (bonds, loan). That money evaporated long ago, and those who decided to lend and invest on the principle that there is money like never before smoked it away. So there is no dilemma about where it is better to 'invest'. But there was an alternative. Doing nothing, agreeing to regroup nothing, sitting and moping, then there would be no chance of getting the external financing that is now needed. And everything would have ended already. Now at least there are prospects, the realisation of which I cannot predict, because that is not decided by us. Other people, big-money operators. To be or not to be.
From@andrislov@AndrisKulbergs repeats the old mantra: allowing the company to cease operations “would not be responsible,” because airBaltic “connects Latvia with the world” and is “a vital part of the economy.” Here is the classic mistake of confusing a specific company with a function. Connectivity is provided by the airport, demand, and competition, not by the existence of a single company with negative equity and expensive bonds. If airBaltic ceased to exist tomorrow, the slots and passengers would not disappear; others would take them. Bastiat already explained a century and a half ago: the visible is the existing flights, the invisible is everything that the same resources invested in airBaltic would have created elsewhere, right, Mr. @guntarsv?
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From@EdvardsRatnieks🎉 Today, together with the Minister of Education and Science Ilze Indriksone, the Čiekurkalns and Mežaparks development associations, as well as with the management and teachers of Riga 45th Secondary School, we celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the new Mežaparks primary school. https://t.co/DRSDzho2Ls
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