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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.
including documents implicating Putin and his cronies.
Oh, don't worry, honey. Wikileaks is getting its hands on the full leak and will post all the 11.5 million documents soon. Right now only 149 documents were published, and they were obviously carefully cherry-picked for political reasons. Mossack Fonseca's clients are mostly western companies and individuals, especially from the US, including dozens of billionaires and politicians.
The shit is going to hit the fan very soon. Think about Hurricane Katrina, except that instead of being water it will be feces.
including documents implicating Putin and his cronies
Which is the exact reason Putin's minions released this data now: to have the public talk about something else.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.