It is not known whether the Hungarian government informed its allies that Russian hackers had accessed foreign affairs networks. If the Hungarian government failed to do so, there might be serious consequences, including Hungary’s exclusion from NATO.
The Russians have had access to the secrets of Hungarian foreign affairs for almost a decade. It still applies now, during the Russian-Ukrainian war. As a result,
the Russians can see the entire IT network of Hungarian foreign affairs, including the network that transmits state secrets.
Russian hackers have access to everything. Former Moscow Ambassador Árpád Székely spoke to Direkt36. Székely believes that such a serious vulnerability in Hungarian foreign affairs raises many questions. After the election, the matter must be thoroughly investigated by the current government.
The main question is whether NATO members knew that the Russians hacked Hungarian foreign affairs.
Hungary has a duty to notify the allied member states. This is also particularly important because Russian hackers have access to the protected network of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. These networks contain confidential information about the security of allies. Árpád Székely believes that if Hungary did not tell the truth to its allies, it could be a fatal mistake.
The consequence of this mistake may even be the exclusion of Hungary from NATO.
It is also an aggravating factor that the war is raging in the neighbouring country. In addition, the attacker country in the war is Russia which has hacked the Hungarian networks. The former Moscow Ambassador believes that the Hungarian government is hiding many things both at home and abroad. Probably, neither the EU nor NATO was idle about the information leak.
NATO is probably not sharing all the confidential information with Hungary.
In the event of a change of government, it is important to explore the extent of Russian intrusion into Hungarian foreign affairs, writes napi.hu.
In Hungary, NATO support is higher than average. Due to the Ukrainian war, support for the organisation increased anyway. According to a survey in Hungary, 66 per cent of people supported NATO membership. 10 per cent opposed, while the rest did not comment.
Source: napi.hu, DIrekth36
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More and more it looks like Hungary has been the Russian Trojan horse ‘for almost a decade’. Those numerous face to face meetings between Orbán and Putin over the years (the most of any Western leader) can’t all have been about the weather……
Canada let Chinese military work in top secret viral labs and didn’t disclose that info to Nati until after the fact and there wasn’t any talk of kicking Canada out of Nato. Plus, Canada spends much less than the 2% required. For many years it has been less than 1.5%.
Leftist propaganda. Only naive people will believe bed time stories.
Well, that would be great if Hungary left that corrupt organisation.
Let’s hope so.
Time to face reality. All areas of the Hungarian government, military, police as well as news media are infiltrated by Russian and Chinese secret services and have been for a long time. Orban’s foreign policy has made this possible.
Orban is a fascist and so is Putin. Time to dispatch the dictators and bring democracy back. Your election was rigged.
Peter, You never find mass graves in Hungary. Canada has mass graves.
This human world is built on lies. Slave holder countries are ruling everything. Hungary just a little bump on the way to totalitarianism. When Russia is gone, they will have easy time to destroy China. They will reduce the population. Plant micro chips into everybody. One thing will be good, gullible stupid people will be gone.
There are very many intelligent people in Hungary, unfortunately they were not able to out-vote all the stupid ones that voted the Putin lover Orban into power, – If Orban refuses to resign from NATO he should be given a size 12 BOOT right up the Arse and then the EU should show him where the door is and tell him to get straight through it.
Nato is as corrupt as those millionaires who are in charge of the eu ,The people of hungary at least have a government that is for the people NOT governed from brussels …The uk left,france ,spain greece etc are in massive debt due to brussels rules.As for nato they are as useless as the UN who always pass resolutions but never do anything ,,over 1000 against Turkey after the cyprus invasion but nothing happening after 50 years .
@ Edward A) If they are “top secret viral labs” then how would you know about them?? (Ah, perhaps your sources know – but they’re probably conspiracy theorists). B) DEFLECT…! Your comment has absolutely nothing to do with subject article. What about Hilary’s emails?? LOL
Yep…up here in Canada we’re working on Viral THC. We invited the Chinese along cuz they are WAY too serious and need incentive to chill the hell out before they blow something up. It’s not exactly top secret though…AKUNA MUTTATA eh? Any more concerns we Canadians can address for you Edward?