Hacker Exposes Healthcare Data Stolen from Hospices in Turkey

A hacker apparently an Anonymous member posted one web-link opening onto one archive consisting of personal information of inmates of several Turkish hospitals. The data was posted onto 3 separate websites featuring file-sharing facility. Moreover, a YouTube movie too was posted. Lately, of the 3 web-links to the file-sharing sites, two along with the YouTube movie were disabled, while just one was active.

The YouTube movie posted May 18 showed an individual with his face behind a Guy Fawkes mask that Anonymous group branded, asserting he hacked servers of many hospitals in Turkey, stole patient records as also accessed targeted databases to erase information from them.

According to the individual, he was avenging since the latest cyber-assaults launched on US hospitals. During that period, these were propagated as from Turkish hackers, although wasn't ever supported with strong proof.

The huge amount of data exposure carries information from thirty three hospitals; however, Hurriyet a Turkish daily reported that the health ministry acknowledged to having merely a few problems from cyber-assaults against hospices within the Diyarbakir southeast city of Turkey.

Government in Turkey substantiated the series of cyber-assaults striking the region's hospitals but tried devaluing the range of damage. The ministry telling Hurriyet substantiated that 33 hospitals had been affected due to a cyber-assault while acknowledged work on the computers had been completely stopped due to the incident.

This isn't the sole case of Turkey being attacked with large hacks during recent months. In April 2016, one unidentified hacker exposed 50m Turkish voters' private records, while in February, data seized from servers of Turkish police was leaked when a hacker known as ROR[RG] launched an attack. Softpedia.com posted this, May 19, 2016.

Earlier last year during December, Anonymous executed an overwhelming DDoS assaults on the NIC.tr registrar of Turkey, thus bringing to halt all .tr sites. Each of the mentioned assaults began immediately when Turkey halted one Russian aircraft getting into its airspace.

And whilst the hacker's assertions don't clearly indicate full legitimacy, particularly with respect to the leakage's magnitude, there has been backlashes to the hack from Anonymous associated A/Cs as well as Internet security commentators.

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