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A database reportedly containing the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, including that of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was posted online by a hacking group.
The database, which comprises 49,611,709 documents, was posted on the website of an Icelandic group that specializes in divulging leaks on Monday.
Hacktivists claim the leaked information uploaded in the 6.6 GB file includes the first and last names, parents' names, national ID number, gender, place of birth, date of birth, full address, current city and district of those in the database.
The attack seems to be politically motivated. "Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?" the hackers wrote on the database's front page, which features Erdogan's profile.
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