RedHack
Turkish Marxist–Leninist computer hacker group
RedHack is a Turkish Marxist-Leninist computer hacker group founded in 1997. The group has claimed responsibility for hacking the websites of institutions which include the Council of Higher Education, Turkish police forces, the Turkish Army, Türk Telekom, and the National Intelligence Organization others. The group's core membership is said to be twelve. RedHack is the first hacker group which has been accused of being a terrorist organization and circa 2015 is one of the world's most wanted hacker groups.
Pre-2012
2010: Hacking the international system of the Turkish Police Department Traffic Services and erasing all fines.
2000: Hacking and decoding the CCTV system.
2 July 2010: In memory of the Sivas massacre the group hacked and defaced 256 government and hundreds of dissident websites, the Ministry of the Interior was also under the affected websites.
2 July 2011: Hacking and defacing more than 1000 websites, among them websites of Adnan Oktar and dissident websites in memory of the Sivas massacre.
2012
22 February 2012: After taking down 350 police websites, the group leaked internal data.
6 March 2012: 900 record numbers, names, email addresses and passwords belonging to the staffers of Turkey’s National Police have been published online by the group.
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