North Korea hacked a Hungarian governmental organisation!

The victim was the Hungarian Development Centre, which has to start its administration from scratch because, as it claims, it was hacked mid-July by North Koreans who destroyed its entire digital database.

The server on which the North Korean hackers destroyed all data has been in operation since 2014 and contained all official documentation, contracts, invoices, corporate software, 168 óra reported.

The paper asked both the Development Centre and its supervisory body, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, about the exact date of the attack

but received no answer as of yet. 

The Hungarian Development Centre‘s task is to monitor European tenders financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds. Furthermore, it has to inform public administration, municipalities, and the NGO sector about the available funding and tender terms. It cooperates not only with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade but also with the National Development Ministry, the Ministry of Agriculture, several governmental organisations, as well as NGOs, sports and other organisations.

The Development Centre operates the Tenders in Hungarian (Pályázatok Magyarul) website as well, but the website functioned during the attack, so it was probably not targeted. Nevertheless, the documents for