Data breach

Turkish authorities have imposed a fine of 2 million Turkish Liras ($58,000) on Amazon's Twitch, citing a data breach at the social media platform.

Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) launched an investigation following the disclosure of 125 GB of sensitive data online during a massive breach in 2021.

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has dismissed media reports claiming that the personal data of millions of people had been stolen.

"There is currently no issue in Türkiye regarding data theft," Uraloğlu told reporters on Sept. 16 in the capital Ankara.

Our personal data has become a valuable commodity in the digital age, and the need for robust data privacy and security measures has never been more pressing. As our lives increasingly revolve around technology, the amount of sensitive information we share with various online platforms and services has skyrocketed.

A cybersecurity expert has issued a call for the immediate revision of all passwords, including those providing access to official documents through gateways, following the leakage of 10 billion passwords on an online hacker site.

A massive dataset of almost 10 billion passwords has been shared on the dark Web in what is being called the largest password leak in history.

Dubbed "RockYou2024," the leak compiles passwords from both old data breaches from an earlier credentials database known as "RockYou2021," which featured 8.4 billion passwords, and around 1.5 billion new passwords.

Authorities in Athens are investigating a potential data breach following a break-in at the Interior Ministry's election directorate.

The incident occurred between 1.40 p.m. and 2.10 p.m. on Friday, while the directorate head was absent from the office, which is located on downtown Evangelistrias Street.

Hackers stole "sensitive information" including military and government documents from Taiwan's largest telecom company and sold it on the dark web, the island's ministry of national defense has said.

The confirmation of the democratic island's latest major data leak followed a report by local news channel TVBS on the hack of telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom.

A former CIA programmer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for leaking the U.S. spy agency's most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks.

Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of espionage and other charges in what the CIA called a "digital Pearl Harbor" — the largest data breach in the history of the intelligence agency.

Ηundreds of files containing sensitive data stolen from the University of the Aegean by the cybercriminal group Lockbit earlier this year were published on the dark web on November 27.

Following the recent allegation over data leakage on e-Devlet, the Turkish official website offering government services, the head of the presidency's Digital Transformation Office has denied such claims, stating that it is technically impossible for citizens' data to get stolen in any way.