The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been leaked online
(business insider/Lianna Brinded) The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been hacked and leaked online. A website with purportedly leaked details of 49,611,709 Turkish citizens is online and allegedly gives the following details of each citizen — including the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan:
National Identifier (TC Kimlik No)
First Name
Last Name
Mother's First Name
Father's First Name
Gender
City of Birth
Date of Birth
ID Registration City and District
Full Address
At the bottom of the page if gives people the option to download 6.6GB worth of uncompressed files. Business Insider did not download or verify the data linked to on the site. The Register also reported on the leak but it is unclear whether it downloaded the Bit Torrent file.
The apparent hack seems to be politically motivated. The website reads: "Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?" The text on the site also includes a warning against US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump:
The site also purports to publish the personal details of Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a preview of the data.
[Die türkische Regierung verweist diesen Hack ins Jahr 2008/2009.]
(business insider/Lianna Brinded) The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been hacked and leaked online. A website with purportedly leaked details of 49,611,709 Turkish citizens is online and allegedly gives the following details of each citizen — including the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan:
National Identifier (TC Kimlik No)
First Name
Last Name
Mother's First Name
Father's First Name
Gender
City of Birth
Date of Birth
ID Registration City and District
Full Address
At the bottom of the page if gives people the option to download 6.6GB worth of uncompressed files. Business Insider did not download or verify the data linked to on the site. The Register also reported on the leak but it is unclear whether it downloaded the Bit Torrent file.
The apparent hack seems to be politically motivated. The website reads: "Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?" The text on the site also includes a warning against US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump:
The site also purports to publish the personal details of Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a preview of the data.
[Die türkische Regierung verweist diesen Hack ins Jahr 2008/2009.]