<nettime> E-ticket, Hungary

[János Sugár <sj@c3.hu>]

A teenager discovered that the brand new website 
of the public transit authority in Budapest would 
allow you to edit the price you paid for your 
tickets, so that purchasers could give themselves 
massive discounts on their travel, and when he 
told the authority about it, they had him 
arrested and issued a press-release boasting 
about it.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/45-000-facebook-users-leave-one-star-ratings-after-hackers-unjust-arrest/

Ein 18-jähriger Schüler aus Ungarn hat eine 
Schwachstelle im E-Ticketing-System der 
Nahverkehrsbetriebe in der ungarischen Hauptstadt 
Budapest gefunden und wurde kurz nach Meldung der 
Probleme an das Unternehmen festgenommen. Das 
System wird von T-Systems Magyar betrieben. Das 
Unternehmen gehört zum ungarischen 
Telekommunikationsanbieter Magyar Telekom (a 
subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom).
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/18-Jaehriger-meldet-Fehler-in-Budapester-E-Ticketing-System-und-wird-festgenommen-3781914.html

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