The personal information of almost 50 million Turkish citizens has been released by hackers who posted a database online.
This is the largest public leak of private information of its kind and the database posted contained over 49 million entries. Some of the entries include national ID numbers, addresses, birth dates and parents’ names, making the victims of this leak prone to possible identity theft and fraud.
Included within the leak was a message to Turkey: “Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?” Along with this message the hackers pointed out a lesson that all governments can learn from Turkey’s mistakes: “Bit shifting isn’t encryption.”
The hackers also highlighted the information of the current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the former president Abdullah Gul in the leaked database. For the full article click here
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