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Mediaworks Hungary Zrt.

listed as Mediaworks Kft · Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 3 months ago

2m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 28, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Worldleaks
Status
Data leaked
Country
Hungary
Sector
Business Services
Listed on leak site
Apr 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Mediaworks 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.

high

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 post

N/A

Sources

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 28, 2026Mediaworks Kft listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full worldleaks dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Mediaworks Kft is reported in Hungary.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Mediaworks Kft appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on worldleaks's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.