Yet Another TISZA Party Data Breach Scandal: Blame the Russians and Orbán

Main opposition party leader Péter Magyar with his supporters

The TISZA party, led by Péter Magyar, is embroiled in a new data scandal after sensitive data from 200,000 users of the TISZA Világ app was allegedly hacked and uploaded to the forum of the magazine Prohardver, Vadhajtások reported.

While searching for the link to Prohardver, Vadhajtások concluded that the publication had indeed taken place, but its content had since been deleted. In the meantime, a post also appeared on Reddit stating that the data of 200,000 users had been leaked, but this post has also since been deleted by the moderators.

According to the Vadhajtások portal, however, it is significant that comments can still be found under the deleted post and that several people have become involved in TISZA’s latest data scandal. Reportedly, some have contacted the party in official emails and at the same time asked the author of the post not to share the link in question.

Vadhajtások believes that Péter Magyar’s party is once again in the center of a serious scandal. As they write, the portal managed to find TISZA’s database on Prohardver’s image storage server.

We had the data of 200,000 people who had all downloaded the TISZA app. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and, of course, sensitive data, GPS data,”

reported Vadhajtások.

In response, Péter Magyar wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday evening that the TISZA Világ app had been under attack by “international hackers” since its launch, “who are obviously backed by Russian services.” In his latest video statement on Facebook, the TISZA party leader claims that the current attack is part of a deliberate series of actions. The party leader believes that “Viktor Orbán’s government, in its desperation, does not shy away from even the most despicable means” and accused the government of intimidation.

This is not the first serious data scandal involving Péter Magyar.

At the beginning of October, there was allegedly a similarly serious data scandal in connection with the TISZA Világ app. Last month, Index reported that a Ukrainian company called PettersonApps may have worked on developing the application for the TISZA party and that, in addition, the personal data of almost 20,000 users had been leaked from the application. According to Index, the uploaded personal data includes the data of the app’s administrators, individual project members, and also the data of ordinary users who downloaded the app. It has since emerged that

the CEO of PettersonApps is a Ukrainian named Oleh Ostroverkh, who, based on his Facebook profile, is a supporter of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

At the end of October, it became known that reportedly more than 30,000 supporters of the TISZA party had stopped actively using the party’s phone app after the data scandal.

In June of this year, a list uploaded to the Discord server was also published in which supporters who had registered as activists of the TISZA party were allegedly rated with scandalously derogatory expressions. The shocking list, which was also leaked to the Átlátszó portal, showed that supporters of the opposition party had been classified, rated, and commented on beyond their basic data. Péter Magyar attempted to dismiss the indiscretion on Facebook as a Russian smear campaign, but several affected volunteers confirmed that the data was genuine.

Péter Magyar also referred to a hacker attack in this case, but did not provide any concrete evidence.

Via Vadhajtások, Index, Magyar Nemzet, Átlátszó; Featured photo: Facebook/Magyar Péter 

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