Fake Poland-Czech Crisis Planted in Hacked Portals; Real Border Debt Survives Debunking

Poland and the Czech Republic were the target of a cyber operation designed to look like a real diplomatic flashpoint between NATO allies. Attackers hacked the editorial system of Polish public regional broadcaster Radio PiK (radiopik.pl) on or before August 16, 2026, replacing a published article with a fabricated claim that Poland demanded territorial concessions of 638.44 hectares. A near-identical fake story was also seeded into another Polish portal, tcz.pl. CyberDefence24 documented the campaign on August 17 and noted the disinformation inflated an existing border dispute to nearly double its real scale. Investigators also identified a Czech lookalike domain (lrozhlas[.]cz), using homoglyph trickery.