TURKEY BLOCKS DROPBOX LEAKS UPDATE

Update: Dropbox PR reached out and let us know that it’s now available in Turkey again. Microsoft OneDrive was also subsequently blocked off throughout Turkey.

TURKEY BLOCKS DROPBOX LEAKS UPDATE

We’ve contacted Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, GitHub and the government of Turkey to learn more and will update this post if there’s a response.

In March, it barred Web users from accessing Twitter and Facebook after a car bomb exploded in Ankara.

was also blocked by Turkish authorities, and news related to the leaking. It blocked WikiLeaks in July following a leak of emails from Turkey’s roling political party. Although Internet freedom in Turkey has been gradually decreasing over the last.

The country has a long history of blocking internet services, with a view to control what citizens can read about its government online. Turkey Blocks noted that Google Drive had been unblocked on Sunday. An order from an Ankara court concerning the investigation of the group pointed to the authenticity of the leak.Īccording to The Daily Dot, which received the email dump, the correspondence shows how Erdogan used his position of power to influence the media and prompt the publishing of select information in pro-government newspapers. The clips reportedly reveal the prime minister instructing his son to dispose of large amounts of cash in the midst of a police investigation.The 17GB leak, which is believed to span 57,623 emails dating from April 2000 to the end of this September, was released by hacking group Redhack. Turkey is no stranger to this sort of censorship – in March 2014 Twitter was banned in Turkey after an audio clip was leaked on YouTube and Twitter about the alleged corrupt dealings of Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey Blocks said that Google Drive had already been unblocked on Sunday, while other services are still unavailable in the country. The emails are feared to reveal a widespread campaign of propaganda and deception throughout Turkish government. The group are no strangers to controversy: the personal details of almost 50 million Turkish citizens, including the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were posted online a few months ago.Īccording to Turkey Blocks, these digital service are being blocked in an attempt to hamper distribution of the stolen emails and to stop the email from being hosted on citizen-owned accounts. The group has claimed responsibility for hacking institutions which include the Council of Higher Education, Turkish police forces, the Turkish Army and Türk Telekom.” According to Wikipedia, “RedHack is a Turkish communist computer hacker group founded in 1997. In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in. The leak is reported to have come from a hacktivist group known as RedHack. Turkey Twitter War, Gmail Snooping, BlackBerry Leaks, MS-DOS Secrets Tech. A court in Turkey confirmed (linked text in Turkish) the authenticity of the leak. Dropbox denies DMCA disaster, HTC One M8 benchmarks, BlackBerry blocks sales. The emails leaked are 17GB of files containing some 57,623 stolen emails dating from April 2000 to September this year. Turkish anti-censorship group Turkey Blocks is reporting that Dropbox, GitHub, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are being blocked in Turkey.Īccess to the services was blocked on Saturday following the leak of private emails reportedly belonging to minister of energy and natural resources Berat Albayrak.Īccording to Turkey Blocks, Github, Dropbox, and Google Drive are issuing SSL errors, which indicates interception of traffic at the national or ISP level.

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