Hungarian hackers "save" PM from "bad democrat" award

Hackers with Hungarian internet service providers attacked the website of openDemocracy.org, sending its server down, Magyar Nemzet was informed by the organisation.

The independent website on global current affairs nominated Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány as "bad democrat of the month" for the speech he made at Balatonöszöd last May, admitting that he lied to win the elections. Votes came pouring in from Hungary after initial results showed that Gyurcsány was ahead of Thailand's General Sonthi.

The website later crashed after hackers put automated votes on the poll, manipulating the process to ensure that Sonthi, not Gyurcsány, would win the unwanted award, according to openDemocracy.org. The poll was eventually suspended.

The above story is just one of more than two dozen published today by Hungary Around the Clock, the most comprehensive source of daily English-language news about Hungary. For a free trial of HATC, click here. Hungarian news sources include Népszabadság; Magyar Hírlap; Világgazdaság; Napi Gazdaság; Magyar Nemzet; Népszava; Kossuth Rádió news and Hungarian television's nightly news broadcast.

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