Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff had on Thursday revealed that foreign hackers had broken into the IT systems of a Hungarian government agency in charge of defence procurement. However, at the time of filing this report, no sensitive data about Hungary’s military was compromised,
Gergely Gulyas had revealed this during a briefing, adding that a “hostile foreign, non-state hacker group had attacked the Defence Procurement Agency, and we can say that no sensitive data about military structure is handled there, so hackers cannot be in possession of those.”
The group had not been named at this time but Gulyas had remarked that the most sensitive data that hackers could have accessed were “plans and data about military procurement.”
“Nothing that could harm Hungary’s national security was made public,” he added.
Hungary is a NATO member state sharing a border with Ukraine.
News outlet Magyar Hang has alreDy reported that a group called INC Ransomware had hacked into the Defence Procurement Agency’s servers, downloaded and encrypted all files and published some of the screenshots from them online.
An investigation is currently ongoing according to Gulyas.
