Hackers Target Hungarian Defence Procurement Agency, Demand $5 Million for Non-Disclosure of Sensitive Data

Foreign hackers have hacked into the IT systems of the Hungarian government agency responsible for defence procurement, but no confidential information about the Hungarian military has been compromised.

This was reported by the Hungarian government, according to Magyar Hang.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Chief of Staff Gergely Gulyás said at a briefing that ‘a hostile foreign non-state hacker group attacked the Defence Procurement Agency, and we can say that no confidential data about the military structure is processed there, so the hackers cannot get hold of it.’

The most sensitive data that hackers could access was ‘plans and data on military procurement,’ Gulyash said in response to a journalist's question.

‘Nothing that could harm Hungary's national security has been made public,’ he said, adding that an investigation is underway.

‘The assessment of the exact scale of the hack and what (the hackers - ed.) gained access to is still ongoing,’ Gulyás said.

Magyar Hang reported that a group called INC Ransomware hacked into the Defence Procurement Agency's servers, downloaded and encrypted all the files and published some screenshots of them online.