The leak reported to be from YSG [1], organization that manages the election registers.
Software used by them developed by Cybersoft [2]. Cybersoft was part of the system who developed the new identity system in Turkey. The practices used by Cybersoft reported to be horrible. I know someone who worked on that project (about 15 years ago), reportedly they were really bad, playing games on servers where the all identity data of the citizens are stored. I do also know that any employee who was part of the project had access to the query systems, so it was possible to query the database for all citizens of Turkey, not sure how much data it revealed but it revealed the number of people with that name and surname ever born for sure.
Now, I'm not a fan of Erdogan but Cybersoft was developing stuff before Erdogan even got elected. So yes, maybe the government who started to work with Cybersoft was corrupt, maybe the current one is too but let's not just use every single baseless argument to attack Erdogan, it doesn't help anything.
The leak reported to be from YSG [1], organization that manages the election registers.
Software used by them developed by Cybersoft [2]. Cybersoft was part of the system who developed the new identity system in Turkey. The practices used by Cybersoft reported to be horrible. I know someone who worked on that project (about 15 years ago), reportedly they were really bad, playing games on servers where the all identity data of the citizens are stored. I do also know that any employee who was part of the project had access to the query systems, so it was possible to query the database for all citizens of Turkey, not sure how much data it revealed but it revealed the number of people with that name and surname ever born for sure.
Now, I'm not a fan of Erdogan but Cybersoft was developing stuff before Erdogan even got elected. So yes, maybe the government who started to work with Cybersoft was corrupt, maybe the current one is too but let's not just use every single baseless argument to attack Erdogan, it doesn't help anything.
Software used by them developed by Cybersoft [2]. Cybersoft was part of the system who developed the new identity system in Turkey. The practices used by Cybersoft reported to be horrible. I know someone who worked on that project (about 15 years ago), reportedly they were really bad, playing games on servers where the all identity data of the citizens are stored. I do also know that any employee who was part of the project had access to the query systems, so it was possible to query the database for all citizens of Turkey, not sure how much data it revealed but it revealed the number of people with that name and surname ever born for sure.
Now, I'm not a fan of Erdogan but Cybersoft was developing stuff before Erdogan even got elected. So yes, maybe the government who started to work with Cybersoft was corrupt, maybe the current one is too but let's not just use every single baseless argument to attack Erdogan, it doesn't help anything.
[1] http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/faces/Anasayfa.jspx
[2] http://www.cs.com.tr/TR/