Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsMediaworks Hungary Zrt.
listed as Mediaworks Kft · Claimed by worldleaks · listed 22 days ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Apr 28, 2026
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- worldleaks
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- HU
- Sector
- Business Services
- Listed on leak site
- Apr 28, 2026
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileMediaworks Hungary Zrt. is a major Hungarian media conglomerate operating a wide portfolio of digital news portals, print publications, magazines, regional media, and linear broadcast content. The company reaches approximately 5 million monthly visitors and over 6.8 million social media followers, with around 260,000 subscribers. It is consistently among the top online publishers in Hungary, reaching over 2.1 million daily users.
- Industry
- Media Publishing & Digital Content
Attack summary
Severity: high — The company has publicly confirmed a data protection incident involving PII of multiple categories of data subjects (subscribers, employees, partners), and the status is 'data_published', indicating actual exfiltration and release of personal data at scale from a major national media operator.The worldleaks group claims to have obtained and published data belonging to Mediaworks Kft; the company itself has issued a public data breach notice on its website acknowledging a data protection incident affecting partners, sweepstakes participants, former subscribers, and former employees.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Partner data
- Sweepstakes/competition participant data
- Former subscriber personal data
- Former employee records
Original description
AI-summarised, not from the leak postN/A
Sources
Source
Indexed 22 days agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
