BelTA CEO: We changed passwords but what is the difference?
BelTA CEO Iryna Akulovich has explained to Euroradio why she complained to the police. The complaint resulted in the raids of TUT.by and BelaPAN newsrooms.
"More than 30 media outlets are subscribed to the BelTA news feed and I know them. There were some resources using passwords that did not belong to them to receive information. That is why we complained to the police,” she told Euroradio.
Neither TUT.by nor BelaPAN were subscribed to their paid news feed, Akulovich said.
“I have only recently started working in this position, so I cannot tell you if they used to be subscribed in the past. It seems to me that they were not," Akulovich said.
They changed passwords from time to time, the BelTA CEO said. However, she does not think it really matters: “If you change a password and use another one, does it change the core of the problem?”
BelTA plans to go to court against the leading indepenent news providers.
