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Hungarians Hack Opposition Party Servers

Thanks to Mike Masnick over on techdirt.com for the pointer to this article.

An AFP newswire article, via The Mail & Guardian Online, reports that:

Hungary's main opposition party, Fidesz, said on Thursday that it had made a "serious mistake" in hacking into the server of the governing Socialist party ahead of the April general elections.

"Whichever one of our enthusiastic staff did this committed a serious mistake, but the world will not come to an end," Fidesz campaign chief Antal Rogan told Hungarian public television on Thursday, quoted by MTI national news agency.

The Socialists on Tuesday charged Fidesz with having committed "burglary" for having downloaded nearly 3 000 items of campaign material from its password-protected server.