Hackers mock Trump and steal 50k identities

Free World Class Education
FREE Catholic Classes

'Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?'

When you're government is full of corruption and promotes favoritism while her citizens fall prey to religious extremism, the only reasonable response is to hack government websites and steal the identities of 50,000 citizens - right?

Shop Holy Cards

Highlights

By Kenya Sinclair (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
CALIFORNIA NETWORK (https://www.youtube.com/c/californianetwork)
4/5/2016 (8 years ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: Turkey, hackers, political, 50k, identities

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Though the response seems bizarre, it's exactly what one hacker, or hacker group, did to exactly 49,611,709 Turkish citizens - including Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

Details on each of the citizens was made available as a 6.6GB download in uncompressed files on a website that reads: "Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?"

Download Free Catholic PDFs

The private information available for each citizen includes:

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
Full Address

Subscribe Now - Catholic Online YouTube

According to Business Insider, the site included a warning against Donald Trump reading:

"Lesson to learn for Turkey:

Bit shifting isn't encryption.
Index your database. We had to fix your sloppy DB work.
Putting a hardcoded password on the UI hardly does anything for security.
Do something about Erdogan! He is destroying your country beyond recognition.

Lessons for the US? We really shouldn't elect Trump, that guy sounds like he knows even less about running a country than Erdogan does."

Some claim the information is a decrypted version of old 2008 records while other say it "contains data of Turkish cityizens voted in 2009 Elections."
Regardless of what the file holds, the Turkish government has yet to provide a comment.

---

The California Network is the Next Wave in delivery of information and entertainment on pop culture, social trends, lifestyle, entertainment, news, politics and economics. We are hyper-focused on one audience, YOU, the connected generation. JOIN US AS WE REDEFINE AND REVOLUTIONIZE THE EVER-CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE.