ISTANBUL, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s election authority
has denied that a massive data leak which saw the personal information
of 50 million citizens posted online came from its system, local
media reported Saturday.
The government said the data appeared to be that shared
with different political parties ahead of elections in 2009.
“Engineers did investigations. Although it is compatible
with the records we have, there was not any leak from our system,”
the head of the election commission Sadi Guven Guven told state-run
Anadolu agency.
“A leak would be almost impossibly difficult. Our system
is very strongly protected.”
Ankara federal prosecutors on Wednesday opened an
investigation into the data spill which risks exposing most of
Turkey’s 78 million citizens to identity theft and fraud.
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Turkey election authority denies being source of data leak: report
