June 1 () –
The deputies of Fidesz, the party of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Victor Orbán, boycotted on Friday night an extraordinary session of the Hungarian Parliament where an alleged cyber attack on the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the security services was going to be discussed. Russian intelligence.
The session, called by the main opposition parties at the initiative of the environmentalist deputy Bence Tordai, was scheduled for 8:00 p.m. (local time) this Friday, but the Fidesz deputies have been absent, calling the initiative a “farce.” according to the media 444. In response, three parliamentarians from the opposition party Momentum have placed Russian flags on the seats of the Fidesz deputies.
The session was intended to confront the prime minister after he tried to discredit the information published by the aforementioned news portal that, in mid-May, pointed to the “military and civil secret services of Russia” as responsible for a “generalized cyber attack.” against the systems of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs”.
According to investigations, Russian intelligence services were able to steal “invaluable data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ planes from the point of view of national security.” Furthermore, the media assures that the Ministry was aware of this.
“Trying to access other people’s data is a daily occurrence in all States, and Hungary is no exception,” said the nationalist leader in statements to the Blikk portal. “From north to south, from east to west, there are constant attempts at interference,” he added.
This is not the first time that Hungarian media has reported cyber attacks by Russia. In March 2022, shortly before the legislative elections, the Direkt36 portal pointed to another infiltration of Russian services into the Foreign Ministry systems a year earlier. Some information that Orbán’s party described as “campaign lies.”
In early May, several European Union and NATO countries denounced a Russian campaign of cyber attacks against political parties and institutions in Germany and the Czech Republic, warning that they would take measures to respond to threats orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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