State archive
Appears in 1 story · Last updated Nov 6, 2026
Operating the public database; correcting a software error that mislabeled 164 surveilled people as informants
Hungary's searchable database of about 60,000 communist-era state security names went online on November 4 and drew 1.1 million visitors in a day. On November 6 the archive's director-general offered to resign after a software error wrongly listed 164 people who were under surveillance, including former Fidesz MP Lezsák Sándor, among the informants.
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