In a video posted to his social media page, Kocsis said that “two hundred thousand enthusiastic compatriots blindly trusted that Peter Magyar would lead the country, and so they provided all their personal data in the app.” The Fidesz parliamentary leader strongly criticized the Tisza Party and its leader over the data leak scandal that has recently erupted around the party’s mobile application.
“Those who uploaded particularly sensitive information could have exposed their contacts, messages, passwords, bank card details, and even medical records,” Kocsis warned, adding
It is no coincidence that Ukraine is collecting the data of Hungarians”—especially of those who are more open to Ukrainian EU membership or to military involvement in the war.
Kocsis continued:
Now the whole country is scrolling through these leaked lists, and two hundred thousand of our fellow citizens are wondering how they could have been so foolish as to register on Peter Magyar’s app.
As reported by Magyar Nemzet this past weekend, a database containing the names and personal details of roughly 200,000 people was made public. Despite denials from the Tisza Party, leaked information suggests that several Ukrainian developers took part in building and testing the Tisza mobile application. The scandal has raised serious concerns that hundreds of thousands of Hungarians’ personal data may have fallen into Ukrainian hands.
Cover photo: Tisza Vilag application (Source: MW / Krisztian Mate)
