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Did hacktivists really just expose half of Turkey's entire population to ID theft?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/04/turkey_megaleak/A trove of leaked information, purported to be the entire Turkish citizenship database, has been leaked.
The leaked info appears to contain names, addresses and ID numbers of more than 49 million citizens. If confirmed the leak would become one of the biggest privacy breaches, by number of records, ever.
The leaked info weighs in at 6.6GB uncompressed and is searchable.
Those behind the leak imply that it was politically motivated, aimed against Turkey’s controversial president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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