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Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: 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, and Full Address. 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 hack amounts to about 6.6GB worth of uncompressed files, which may make it one of the biggest data leaks of its kind in history. While The Register has also reported on the leak, some claim the leak has correct information but is just a decrypted version of data that was leaked over a couple of months ago. Specifically, the info contains data of Turkish citizens who voted in 2009 elections.
want for the US.
That would be the Panama Papers, with more than 2.6 terrabytes of data on global financial asset hiding released, including documents implicating Putin and his cronies.
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Sounds like answers to everyone's secret questions is now online.
Glad Australia has decided to maintain identity information in the upcoming election. It'll be much more fun when the inevitable data leak occurs and it won't be just your name and address that gets distributed, but your sexuality, religion, political leanings, etc.
Why isn't all of that already public information? A couple decades ago most people were happy to have their address and phone number in phone books availabe to everyone. Hopefully this misguided paranoia will falter as fast as it grew.
Am I the only one that's wondering if the hackers (assuming that they are also Turkish citizens) also included their own identities? If they excluded themselves, their names might be on a very short list of people to investigate for being responsble for the hack...
The database doesn't seem to show phone numbers. Those could be a treasure for Nigerian Princes.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
It is Turkey after all.
Just remember to change your name and date of birth.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't we need such database being public if we want transparent election process?
What do mean? Do you prefer the encrypted or incomplete version of the data?
Anyways, the actual hackers pointed out that the data was just bit-shifted. That's pretty weak. This is like 90s-era movie decryption techniques that will occur on your monitor while you watch.
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Posting anon, for reasons that will soon be somewhat obvious.
Through marriage, a significant percentage of my family is Turkish. So I downloaded and installed the database this afternoon to see what's in there.
First off, the data appears to be accurate. Most of our (large number of) family members are in there.
What's somewhat more interesting is who isn't there. Children under 18 are predominately missing. This is actually interesting, as it helps denote boundaries for the database. A family member who turned 18 in 1991 is present, but her younger brother who turned 18 in 2011 is missing. Another family member who moved in 2012 is still listed under their old address. A family member who died in 2008 is missing (as expected).
With a bit of data conversion, it's possible to pull the youngest person out of the database -- their birthdate is listed as March 29th, 1991. As the database seems to exclude people under 18 (age of majority for elections in Turkey), this would potentially date the database to on or around March 29, 2009. Interestingly enough, there were local elections in Turkey on March 29th, 2009, so the thought that this might be an election database appears to be correct.
On the downside, I have a lot of friends and family members to contact in Turkey to let them know their information has been leaked. On the positive side, I won't miss a birthday ever again...
It's a database which dates back to 2010. It only includes citizens which were >= 18 years old back then.
Btw Erdoan lives in his brand new palace at Atatürk Orman Çiftlii, Cumhurbakanl Külliyesi, Betepe, Ankara, Türkiye. He doesn't live at the leaked address. See also: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...kanl_Saray_(Türkiye)
Does it also include data on whether they're ugly and smelly?
Leak: http://185.100.87.84/
Torrent: http://185.100.87.84/mernis.tar.gz.torrent
I know a few turkish people personally. They are on that database and I can confirm with 100% certainty that most of this data is from 2009.
Still a dick move from the hackers. It's really irresponsible.
That is demonstrably untrue. If it was true, the US would be grinding to a halt due to toddlers, as in the US they kill more people per year than terrorists (Muslim or otherwise). If you let go of your xenophobia you might actually start coming up with solutions, instead of just loudly and proudly proclaiming to the world you not only don't understand the scales of the issues involved, but are also terrified of that which you don't understand.