A virtual lynch mob has swarmed the Facebook page of the Budapest Transit Authority (BKK in Hungarian), leaving more than 45,000 one-star reviews after the BKK arranged for the arrest of a helpful teenage “hacker” who exposed a loophole in its payments system. The 18-year-old,...
A teenager trying to help the Budapest Transport Authority (BKK in Hungarian) patch its online payment system was instead arrested for his good deed and accused of launching a cyberattack against the organization. The BKK had recently launched the online payment system in preparation for...
July 26, 2017
A teenager trying to help the Budapest Transport Authority (BKK in Hungarian) patch its online payment system was instead arrested for his good deed and accused of launching a cyberattack against the organization. The BKK had recently launched the online payment system in preparation for the FINA world championships in Budapest. It built the system […]
