Ciucă presumably did not post it himself, but in public the minister is now the face of the breakdown. After all, it’s about his official Facebook page, which has around 35,000 likes and almost 42,000 subscribers.
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The photo in question was uploaded on Tuesday. You can see Ciucă talking to other people on it, but also a whiteboard with access data in several places that were almost certainly not intended for the public.
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Once it was apparently about access to a video conference and once about access to a laptop. Another place on the whiteboard was a password that apparently belongs to the email address of a call center that is used in connection with Romania’s corona vaccinations.
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The picture is circulating on the net
In the meantime, the communications team that looks after Ciucă’s Facebook account has removed the Facebook post in question from their account. However, the recording continues to circulate online, partly in an edited version with blackening, partly in the original. According to “HotNews”, the Romanian journalist Ana Poenariu downloaded the picture before it was deleted and then uploaded it to her Facebook account.
Her contribution was later shared among others by the activist Elena Calistru, who commented: »Post pictures with passwords on Facebook: Bravo, this is digital security!«
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According to »HotNews«, the photo that has now been passed around comes from a visit by Ciucă to the Academy of Land Forces »Nicolae Bălcescu« in the city of Sibiu. It is just one of numerous photos that document the on-site visit. Several other pictures from the visit are still on Ciucă’s account to see.
Of the News channel »Digi24« questioned the Department of Defense about the incident. The ministry said that the passwords that were accidentally made public were changed immediately. There were also no attempts at access from outside. The problematic photo was removed promptly after Ciucă’s communications team received information about the content of the picture.
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