Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered an investigation into a cyberattack on the main opposition party, the Tisza, claiming that Ukrainians were involved. This was stated in a video message published on Facebook.
Orban called the attack on the party’s mobile app a “scandal that has shaken Hungarian society.” He said that an analysis of the database revealed that “individuals from Ukraine also participated in the data processing.” The Prime Minister announced that he had instructed the special services to “immediately investigate the circumstances of the case,” since “the personal data of Hungarians falling into the hands of Ukrainians poses a serious threat to national security.”
Earlier, Orban had accused Ukrainian intelligence of allegedly gaining access to the smartphones of Hungarian citizens through the “Tysa” party. According to him, Ukrainian special services have “penetrated public life and politics”, providing “technological assistance to their allies in the country”.
“Once we said: ‘Russians are already in the pantry’, now we must say: ‘Ukrainians are already in your smartphone’. We will not allow this”, Orban said.
In his opinion, the Ukrainian company PettersonApps could have been involved in the creation of the ‘Tisa’ party application, which allegedly exposed the data of about 18,000 users.
The ‘Tisa’ party rejected these accusations, stating that the application was developed exclusively by Hungarian specialists. Party representatives clarified that some of the data in the leaked database does indeed belong to “Tysi”, but the source of this information is unknown, and no foreign companies were involved in the development of the application.
