Hungary’s highest court rules for victim of cybercrime

The Kúria, Hungary’s highest court, has ruled that a Hungarian whose bank account was compromised in a cybercrime scam was not grossly negligent, the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) said on Monday.

The victim’s bank refused to cover their client’s losses after being conned into sharing personal information on a fake website designed to look like the bank’s, citing gross negligence. An arbitration body run by the central bank decided the client was not liable for the loss. The bank contested that decision in court and lost in a first-instant ruling, but won on appeal.

The cybercrime case was then brought before the Kúria which quashed the appellate court’s decision and upheld the initial ruling. The Kúria noted in the ruling that determining intent or gross negligence in such matters needed to be weighed on a case-by-case basis.

The NBH said the ruling had set a precedent for similar cybercrime cases.

As we wrote earlier, Hungarian man uploaded images of violence against Hungarian women arrested in Berlin, details HERE