Police drop case against ‘ethical hacker’
Budapest, 2017. július 18. Utas új elektronikus bérletét ellenõrzi a Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) jegyellenõre Budapesten, a Deák téri metrómegállóban 2017. július 18-án. A napokban elindÃtotta a BKK az online jegy- és bérletvásárlási felületet, amelyre a vásárlóknak minden nap be kell majd lépniük. Elõször teljes árú és tanuló, félhavi és havi Budapest-bérletek, 24, 72 órás és hetijegy vásárlására lesz lehetõség. MTI Fotó: Balogh Zoltán
Police in Hungary have dropped a procedure against an ethical hacker who demonstrated a security vulnerability in the Budapest transport authority’s (BKK) e-ticket system, saying that the man’s actions had not presented a danger to society and did not constitute a crime.
At the same time, the investigation into the case is still under way, though the man in question from Kisvárda, in eastern Hungary, is no longer a suspect, the public prosecutor of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County said in a statement.
After hacking into BKV’s new e-ticket system developed by T-Systems Magyarország and buying a monthly travel pass for 50 forints (around 15 euro cents), the man alerted BKK to the IT flaw.
After police named him as a suspect, several organisations protested against the authorities pursuing a criminal probe into an ethical hacker and a demonstration was held in front of BKK’s headquarters.
Photo: MTI
Source: MTI
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1 Comment
“After hacking into BKV’s new e-ticket system…”
It was not ‘hacked’ into as you describe. Anyone with basic computer skills could have done the same with a few clicks.