Data Dump 2016 Exclusive — Turkish Police

Believed to be an older voter registration database from roughly 2008–2009.

At 3:00 AM on August 12, 2016, a "Code Crimson" was called. This is a protocol reserved for catastrophic data loss. The Turkish government immediately issued a gag order. Turkish news outlets were forbidden from using the phrase "police data dump." Twitter was throttled, and VPN usage spiked by 400%. turkish police data dump 2016 exclusive

In early 2016, two major data incidents occurred in Turkey: an 18GB leak of Turkish National Police (EGM) data by Anonymous in February, followed by a massive April dump containing the personal information of nearly 50 million citizens from a 2009 voter database. These breaches exposed sensitive information for roughly two-thirds of the population and highlighted significant security failures within Turkish infrastructure. For more details, visit SecurityWeek 50 million PII Records of Turkish Citizens Posted Online Believed to be an older voter registration database