AKP Emails data breach: 917K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-10-01
In July 2016, a hacker known as Phineas Fisher hacked Turkey's ruling party (Justice and Development Party or "AKP") and gained access to 300k emails. The full contents of the emails were subsequently published by WikiLeaks and made searchable. HIBP identified over 917k unique email address patterns in the data set, including message IDs and a number of other non-user addresses. Exposed data: email addresses, email messages. The breach dates from Jul 19, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Oct 1, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a AKP Emails account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
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