Hungarian state media has shared a map of opposition party supporters following Tisza Világ app data breach

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1. Machine translation:

   The personal data of affected individuals—names, email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses—which became known following the data protection incident involving the Tisza Világ (Tisza World) application, has been published on an interactive, searchable website.

   First Index, then Magyar Nemzet, Origo, and roughly the entire government-aligned media reported on the map (Magyar Nemzet, for example, under the headline _”Everyone can look up who the Tisza supporter is on their street or in their village”_), but after the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH) called the use of personal and special data a criminal offense, the papers removed the link to the map from their articles.

   Péter Magyar reacted to the incident in a statement on Friday evening, in which he stated:

   > “Today we have reached the point where the thieving Fidesz is listing TISZA supporters on a map: throwing names, addresses, and lives before their janissaries as incitement. This is a criminal offense. A serious criminal offense. A politically motivated criminal offense, the goal of which is clearly intimidation.”

2. Surely this is something the EU can take action against?

3. A leak of personal data from the Tisza political movement has escalated further: someone has created an interactive map using the data of roughly 200,000 supporters. A pro-government newspaper has already published a list of names with additional details, such as people’s occupations, and a pro-government public figure even went to the home of one Tisza activist.

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5. The website was taken down just now and it’s no longer reachable.

6. There was no link on these sites, just the fact that such site appeared on the web.

   If anyone denies it, show a proof. (wayback machine, screenshot etc)

7. Leaking citizens data to score political points is a whole new level of dangerous. This isn’t just politics anymore it’s intimidation

8. when westerners say ,,oh just simply kick Fidesz out” – this is what we are up against.

9. >”Everyone can look up who the Tisza supporter is on their street or in their village”)

   I mean… anybody with more than two neurons and a little of historical culture can immediately spot that this is super dangerous to say that

10. That is, if it’s even real and not just a fabrication, as there are several public figures claiming that their data is on the list but they never registered on the app.

    So it’s either the governing party criminally misusing citizens’ data obtained through a data breach or the governing party is falsifying data, framing an opposition party for mishandling citizens’ data and then using it in a way that would be a criminal offence. Not sure which is better honestly.

11. wtf.

12. The current Hungarian government is evil.

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