Lawfare‘s Paul Rosenzweig reports on an epic cyber breach and data release of Turkey’s data:
Yesterday, someone (no credit claimed yet — though note the suggestion that the hackers are American) posted online what appears to be the personal information of EVERY Turkish citizen — all 49+ million of them.
From the hacker’s note on their efforts:
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.
Suggests they may be a rather liberal, or possibly libertarian, lot. Christopher Miller on Mashable points out that Turkey’s population is somewhat larger than 49 million – closer to 79 million. Regardless, it’s a big breach and will cause heartburn for some. Hopefully, they’ll be an object lesson for everyone else.
