Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

In case it goes offline:

    #Turkish Citizenship Database

    Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?
    
    This leak contains the following information for 49,611,709 Turkish citizens: (IN CLEARTEXT)

    - 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

    **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.
    
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Somewhat interesting to think that this very personal information of tens of millions of citizens is just 1.5 gigs in size.

Are the implications of the National identifier similar to an SSN in the US?

This data is being circulated for a while now.

This makes me so angry. It is good that you show the infrastructure is bad, but how stupid does one have to be to say "do something about Erdogan" to the people who are facing identity theft directly due to one's actions?

Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication. The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name, which then would be enough to access confidential information at most banks (though they wouldn't be able to transfer money without authorisation code).

Not much. Not their style of warfare really.

Interesting, but to be fair a typical facebook page has more information.