A group of hackers have stolen the details of at least one and a half million customers of TürkNet, a well-known Internet service provider in Turkey, including names, addresses and telephone numbers. The hackers have demanded that the company pay a ransom of almost a quarter of a million euros.
According to the Turkish press, TürkNet has already acknowledged the security breach in an official statement, reporting that the leaked data includes the full names of users, their national identification numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, details of their subscriptions and static IP addresses. Although the company did not offer details about the exact number of customers affected by the cyber attack, Turkish media claim that it could be around 1.5 million customers.
‘Despite the measures we have taken within the framework of personal data protection law, our databases have been the target of a cyber attack. For now, we have improved security and increased essential levels of administrative and technological protection,’ the Turkish company said in the statement, confirming that the attack occurred on 11 March.
TürkNet also indicated that it is working closely with the competent bodies to investigate the security breach and try to identify those responsible for the cyber attack, who, according to Turkish media, had demanded 3 Bitcoins as ransom in exchange for the data stolen from the company, equivalent to some 230,000 euros.
The computer attack has raised alarm about the levels of cybersecurity of Turkish companies, highlighting that cyber attacks are becoming a worrying problem not only in Turkey, but throughout the world. Official data indicates that in January alone, more than one billion malicious access attempts by hackers to 1.5 million IP addresses were blocked across the country. Faced with this challenge, the Turkish parliament approved yesterday a new cybersecurity law that establishes penalties of up to 12 years in prison for cybercriminals who attack websites and other digital infrastructures of the state.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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