There is a lot of confusion surrounding this, which I can hopefully clarify. Wikileaks released a dump of email obtained from a hack of the Turkish ruling party

There is a lot of confusion surrounding this, which I can hopefully clarify. Wikileaks released a dump of email obtained from a hack of the Turkish ruling party (AKP), which can be found on their main page. It turned out that the source of these documents was Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR on twitter), the hacker who previously released documents on FinFisher, Hacking Team, and a few others. Due to some miscommunication with WikiLeaks, he was actually still in the AKP network when the WL release happened: > I hacked AKP (the ruling party in Turkey) because I support the society people > are trying to build in Rojava and Bakur [1], and they're being attacked by > Turkey [2][3][4]. I don't see leaking as an end in itself, so I was talking with > people in Rojava and Bakur to see how best to use the access I'd gotten. There > was a miscommunication between some of them and someone gave a copy of the first > file I'd downloaded (which had about half of @akparti.org.tr's email up to that > point) to wikileaks. They quickly corrected the miscommunication and asked > wikileaks to hold off on publishing it, but wikileaks decided to publish now > anyway with the international attention from the recent coup attempt. To be fair > to wikileaks, they didn't know I was still in AKP's network downloading files at > the time they announced they were publishing [5], but they did know that the > source who had given them the file was asking them to wait... I am not certain whether the voter database Zeynep Tufekci described is contained in the WikiLeaks dump (e.g. as an attachment). It is definitely contained in the larger AKP dump released by Phineas Fisher. Here's a writeup on what is contained in the full AKP dump, which confirms the claims made by the Huffington Post article. I have done some light checking against my own copy of the dump and verified that what they say seems to be correct. https://medium.com/@crymora/when-leaking-turns-into-dumping-61efcd20c96a#.s2lk3we00 https://medium.com/@crymora/when-leaking-turns-into-dumping-... Note: I am deliberately not linking directly to the source documents, because I agree that their full and unredacted release was dangerous. You can no doubt find them if you search around, but I'd urge you to think about the possible repercussions carefully before propagating it.