Database allegedly containing ID numbers of 50m Turks posted online
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#19A8Z)
Half the population of Turkey potentially opened up to identity theft and privacy violations after information posted to server hosted in Romania
A database posted online allegedly contains the personal information of 49 million people on the Turkish citizenship database, potentially making more than half of the population of the country vulnerable to identity theft and massive privacy violations.
The database, which has not been verified as authentic, was posted to a server apparently hosted in Romania on Monday with an introduction reading "Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?"
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