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Turkish Gov't Retaliates After Hackers Release Police Data Via Twitter (ibtimes.co.uk)

New submitter NeonBible writes with this news from IB Times UK: The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter [users who] posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server. The users, which include two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 17.8GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month. Among the websites targeted by the government security affairs division were @CthulhuSec, @YourAnonNews, @CryptOnymous and also an alleged news organisation called KurdishDailyNews.org.

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  1. "Retaliates" by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They "blocked" a few Twitter accounts. Retaliation would be they tracked them down and boiled their pet bunny or something. And what is with mixing "Websites" with Twitter handles? This is supposed to be a site read by semi-competent technical people. What is next, a story about how the Internet Tubes work?