Hungarian minister shared what the Russians stole from foreign ministry with their cyberattack

Government websites are regularly hit by hackers, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday, adding that a 2022 cyberattack “of Russian origin” against the foreign ministry had not led to a leak of any confidential information.

Responding to a question at a regular government press briefing, Gergely Gulyás said it was untrue that the Russian intelligence services had “severely compromised” the foreign ministry’s IT systems, noting that the ministry had denied those claims in 2022.

He noted that reports in the press had referred to a “highly unusual” cyberattack that led to a leak of confidential data, adding that a briefing he had requested had indicated that no one had gained access to any confidential information.

Photo: FB/Gergely Gulyás

Gulyás said he had no knowledge of any diplomatic countermeasures taken after the cyberattack, adding, at the same time, that Hungarian government IT systems were regularly targeted in such a way from “numerous countries”, and he could not recall a case in which an ambassador would have been summoned over the matter.

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