Detailed personal information for about 50 million people leaked, possibly also becoming the largest leak in the past

ByJudith E. Bell

Hacking activities aimed at social and political assertionsHakutibisto, The personal information of 50 million Turkish citizens leaked. Among them is the current presidentRecep Tieip ErdoganIt seems that Mr.'s information is also included, and it is such a situation that an expert claiming that information becomes the largest information leak in the past if information is genuine.

Turkey: Political hacktivist leaks 'citizen database' containing 50 million personal records
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-political-hacktivist-leaks-citizen-database-containing-50-million-personal-records-1553123


"Citizen database" where citizen's personal information is stored was attacked by Hakutibisto. The hacktivist who made the attack uploaded 6.6 GB of data that can be used for detailed personal information such as the name and national identification number of the individual obtained by hacking, the name of parents, sex, place of birth, birthday, address etc on the Internet It is open to the public. The data contains personal information of Turkish citizens of 49.61 million 1709 people. Incidentally,The population of Turkey is approximately 75 million peopleSo, it means that personal information corresponding to about 65% of the population has flowed out.

Hakutibisuto who leaked the information said, "Who could imagine Turkish rebellious ideology, religiousism, religious extremists are likely to collapse and invite vulnerable infrastructure?", And personal information It is written on the uploaded page.

ByRobbie Sproule

I report on this massive information leakage incident in TurkeySoftpediaSuggests that most of the leaked data may be reusing the data leakage incident data that occurred in 2009.


However, some experts, including security researcher Jacob Abelbaum, say, "If this hacking is as claimed by Hacktivist, this is the largest leak of personal information in the past."

If this is really what it claims, I think it is one of the largest security / PII breaches since the#OPMHack:https://t.co/xyFRTf2hHD

- Jacob Appelbaum (@ oerror)April 4, 2016

In order to prove that the leaked information is genuine, Hakutibist also publishes personal information of Turkish President Erdogan. Also, for the government authorities in Turkey it is not "encrypted by" modifying it a little bit "," even if a hard-coded password is installed in the UI, it will not be a security reason, " , I point out security shortcomings I noticed when I hacked a citizen database.

In addition, "Do something about Erdogan! That guy is about to destroy it to the extent that there is no shadow to see Turkey." "We should not choose a playing card, which he says ignorance over Erdogan regarding national governance I have no choice but to write opinions on the political situation in America and Turkey.

In addition, in Turkey there are other information leakage cases by hackers, in February 2016 17.8 GB equivalent data from the National Police Databaseleakagedoing.