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The page of the Albanian Institute of Statistics seems to have fallen prey to the Iranian hacker group, Homeland Justice.
In an announcement made on social networks, this group announced that it was able to hack this INSTAT website.
So, currently the site is inaccessible to citizens on Google search engines. The spokesperson of INSTAT has confirmed the attack to the media.
"We are working to recover the site", he said.
"Homeland Justice" has published the names of INSTAT employees, their e-mails, phone numbers and residential addresses.
"Numbers and figures, statistics... They are all against you. You are your only enemy. Your IGNORANCE is your Torturer," writes Homeland Justice on Telegram.
This cyber attack comes while INSTAT is processing data on the population census conducted at the end of last year, from which we expect to learn the current number of citizens of Albania as well as other data on income, religion, ethnicity, etc.
We recall that a few days ago, KiE and EUROSTAT requested the publication of population census data by February 15.
Sources for the 'Pamphlet' showed three days ago that the Council of Europe and EUROSTAT reacted to INSTAT's decision to publish the Census data at the end of June 2024, when this process was closed on November 15, 2023.
"Protocol-Standardi 2010", related to the deadline set by EUROSTAT for censuses in countries outside the EU, defines as an obligation of each country, that the data be published within 1 month after the process is closed.
In Albania, the results of the Census should have been published on December 15, 2023, but the Director of INSTAT, Elsa Dhuli, stated that they will be published within the month of June 2024, with the justification that "data recording and processing requires a lot of time and technicality".
The director of INSTAT has not made up her mind about postponing the publication for 6 months; but he declared the order given by Prime Minister Edi Rama, who reports directly to him.
The scheme of postponing the deadline was made to extend the time of the announcement of the result, with the aim of falsifying the data that came out of the Census, recording those data that are of interest to the government and the personal politics of the Prime Minister.
What interests the chief is the concealment of the actual number of the population that left the country during the period between Census-2011 and Census-2023, where the largest number of nearly 700,000 people belongs to the last 8 years in SP power.
But after the official statement that the director of INSTAT made for the postponement of the deadline for the announcement of the Census results, the Council of Europe and EUROSTAT reacted jointly, asking the Albanian government not to delay the publication of the data.
They have given Prime Minister Edi Rama an ultimatum to order INSTAT, as a government structure, to publish the results of the Census by February 15, 2024, reflecting the factual data, especially the number of the population, the composition-percentages of minorities and the number of businesses.
If Rama rejects this ultimatum of KiE and EUROSTAT, not publishing the data by February 15, the EU institutions warn that the Census will not be recognized, while the Albanian government will be forced to repeat this process and will be supervised by them.
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