The recent leak of data belonging to the Tisza Party’s activists represents “one of the biggest scandals in modern Hungarian political history”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in an interview on the Mandiner program Stratéga.
Responding to comments made by Péter Magyar, who claimed that Russian intelligence had infiltrated Hungary’s institutions, FM Szijjártó said there was “a misunderstanding,” noting that “it was not the Foreign Ministry’s employee list that leaked, but the list of the Tisza Party’s activists.”
“A party that wants to govern entered its activists’ personal data into a database created with Ukrainian participation. Now parts of that database have been made public — which means those data are also in Ukrainian hands,” the minister said.
FM Szijjártó warned that this meant the authorities of a country at war could access personal information of Hungarian citizens.
“This is not about party sympathies — it’s about the fact that a country engaged in war can access the most personal data of Hungarian citizens,” he stressed.
He added that the leak had “put hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Hungary’s sovereignty in serious danger”.
“If a country at war gains direct influence over the sovereignty of another through such means, it represents an enormous security risk — both for the individuals concerned and for the country itself,” he said.
According to the minister, the Tisza Party’s use of a foreign-developed application with Ukrainian links, combined with its “pro-war Brussels agenda,” poses a clear national security concern.
“These are converging lines — a Ukrainian-developed database at a party that serves the pro-war Brussels policy means only one thing: every tool is being used to install a pro-war government in Hungary, one that can be influenced in favor of war. That is the real security threat,” FM Szijjártó concluded.
