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Police conducting three investigations over BKK e-ticket system
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The National Investigation Office’s cyber crime unit has launched three criminal procedures related to the Budapest public transport company’s (BKK) e-ticket system, daily Magyar Idők said on Saturday, citing police information.
As we wrote before, the BKK launched the online ticket and lease purchase interface on July but there were rough security flaws in the system. Among other things, with a “basic hacking” anyone could get a lease for as much money as he wants.
Read more at: https://dailynewshungary.com/new-electronic-ticket-system-unsafe/
The NNI is conducting an investigation over suspicion of abuse of information system or data against an 18-year old man who abused a fault of the e-ticket sales system to change the price of the monthly e-pass to 50 forints (0.16 euros), which the programme accepted.
The other two criminal procedures have been initiated against unknown offenders. One of these concerns suspicion of misappropriation related to losses BKK suffered due to development faults of the e-ticket system. Police are trying to establish who is responsible for failing to eliminate the security shortcomings.