The head of SPAK declared for Euronews Albania declared that the institution has no competencies in investigating the data leak.

He noted that the investigation is being carried by the Tirana Prosecution and that SPAK will intervene if there will be subjects that fall under its jurisdiction.

Probe on Tirana and Fier waste is still ongoing, declared Kraja, adding that a “those who violate the law in 2022 need to be concerned”.

In the last few years, the Albanian government hailed digitalization as one of its main achievements, but recent data leaks indicate that there may be security holes in the system.

On December 22, the salaries of some 650,000 employees were leaked in an excel file and shared multiple times on the WhatsApp platform. A day after, another database made the roundabout on the messaging platform, this one containing among other data, data on license plates registrations.