The tension in relations between Greece and Turkey has been spilling over into the digital battlefield for some time now: The informal cyberwar that has erupted between Greek and Turkish hacker groups continues unabated, with constant provocations and successive cyberattacks of smaller or larger scale being carried out by both sides.
This time, a successful DOX-style attack, from the Greek side, exposes the founder and leader of the Turkish hacking group, PowerHack.
PowerHack is a relatively newly established hacking group that is said to have been created since 2017, but is already responsible for a large number of attacks against Greek targets.
"This particular group has periodically "hit" several ministries and universities. A very important attack they committed was on the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, managing to gain access to the database," says H4ck3r01, the Greek hacker who carried out the attack against PowerHack.
Part of the data that has been leaked from the government website yme.gov.gr, in the context of the attacks by the Turkish hacking group, is shown in the following screenshot:
The identity of the leader of PowerHack
[su_spacer size=”10″]According to the exclusive information brought to the attention of the Secnews editorial team, to which detailed information regarding the Greek side's counterattack was shared as well as the exact methodology followed, the alleged leader of the Hacking Group, PowerHack, is 32-year-old Ilyas Enekci, also known as _MaJoR.
"In this way, we want to show the groups in the neighboring country that we also have people who can monitor everything in their country," says the hacker who claims to have managed to reveal the true identity of the leader of PowerHack.
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Through the use of specialized tools combined with the use of doxxing techniques to gather information, H4ck3r01 managed to track down the leader of PowerHack, as well as other members of the group.
Detailed data, along with corresponding PoCs, have been provided to the Secnews editorial team, which will not be made public due to the sensitive nature of the information they contain.
We must nevertheless point out the massive leak of sensitive data of Turkish citizens, from a database belonging to the Turkish Ministry of Interior and connected to the Central Population Management System.
This database includes sensitive personal information of 49,611,709 citizens, such as names, police identification numbers, dates of birth, and residential streets.
In the following screenshot you can see a very small part of the base, parts of which have been obscured for security reasons.
We warmly thank hacker, researcher and penetration tester, H4ck3r01, for his time and for the extremely interesting information he provided to the Secnews editorial team.
