On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:56:31PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/25/hungarian_teenager_arrest_sparks_pro...

Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested

The tale started last week when an unnamed 18-year-old found that he was able to, when purchasing a ticket online, poke the BKK website in a particular way to modify the ticket's price and buy it at that new price.

The BKK then held a press conference at which its CEO Kálmán Dab◈czi proudly announced they had caught a hacker and had filed an official complaint against him.

For his part, the T-Systems' CEO Zoltán Kaszás has also been forced to apologize, especially after it was revealed the company is paid $1m a year to maintain the system and its security.

Well, they're maintaining the security, just at a relatively low SLA (Service Level Agreement) - the government is arguably not getting particularly good value for money, unless there's some under the table graft going on (nah, that would almost never happen in a democracy) in which case "the government" is getting excellent value for money - most of that value straight back into the hand.