2016 MERNIS scandal

2016 MERNIS scandal is leak of private data of citizens of Turkey which had rights to vote in 2009 local elections to the internet. The scandal was considered as one of the biggest leaks in history"LiannaBrinded" https://www.businessinsider.com/turkish-citizenship-database-allegedly-hacked-and-leaked-2016-4 The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been leaked online 3 May 2026 en-US Business Insider Lianna Brinded https://web.archive.org/web/20201108140020/https://www.businessinsider.com/turkish-citizenship-database-allegedly-hacked-and-leaked-2016-4 8 November 2020 , as well as leading to major investigations."sozcu" 11 Jan 2021 50 milyon vatandaşın kimlik bilgileri internette! https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2016/gundem/50-milyon-vatandasin-kimlik-bilgileri-internette-1170573/ Credentials of 50 million people is on internet! www.sozcu.com.tr. Turkish Sözcü newspaper 3 May 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20210111063313/https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2016/gundem/50-milyon-vatandasin-kimlik-bilgileri-internette-1170573/ 2021-01-11 thumb|The screenshot of the website which leaked information was published. The incident The background of the leak was dating back to 2010, when the datas were sold by officials for money.Atilla Toygun Tüm bilgileriniz şu anda satılıyor olabilir https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/tum-bilgileriniz-su-anda-satiliyor-olabilir-15430731 All your informations may being sold by money www.hurriyet.com.tr. Istanbul 3 May 2026 All the datas were leaked by 2016, and published in a site which had .onion extension. 4 April 2016 Turkey MERNIS Citizen Database Leak: What You Need to Know https://d8news.com/turkey-mernis-citizen-database-leak-1045 D8 News 3 May 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20210225074903/https://d8news.com/turkey-mernis-citizen-database-leak-1045 2021-02-25 The data leak, in which the personal data of over 49-50 million"sozcu" people was shared, has gone down in history as one of the largest data leaks in internet history."LiannaBrinded" The website was banned quickly after the leak. minister of Transport and Infrastructure Binali Yıldırım denied the incident and claimed that the datas were from another leak before. 4 October 2016 50 milyon kimlik bilgisi çalındı iddiası! http://www.sozcu.com.tr/2016/gundem/50-milyon-kimlik-bilgisi-calindi-iddiasi-1169450/ www.sozcu.com.tr. 3 May 2026 Bekir Bozdağ, minister of justice in Turkey, stated that the investigations began about the incident."sozcu" 11 January 2026 Turkish authorities 'probing huge ID data leak' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35978216 www.bbc.com. BBC News 3 May 2026 See also scandal References External links https://www.dailydot.com/irl/turkey-data-dump-cthulu-police/ Major 'Turkish police data dump' reveals an even bigger scandal 3 May 2026 21 February 2016 The Daily Dot Efe Kerem Sozeri https://www.heise.de/news/Persoenliche-Daten-von-49-Millionen-tuerkischen-Waehlern-veroeffentlicht-3161729.html Persönliche Daten von 49 Millionen türkischen Wählern veröffentlicht 3 May 2026 4 April 2016 German Heise Online Category:Internet leaks