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Over 250M identity records exposed across 7 countries in a massive leak
9-24-2025
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Cybernews researchers have uncovered a massive data exposure affecting more than 250 million identity records across seven countries, including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mexico, South Africa, and Canada.
Three misconfigured servers — hosted on IP addresses in Brazil and the UAE — contained detailed personal information, resembling government-level identity profiles, now confirmed to have been publicly accessible.
“It's likely that these databases were operated by a single party, due to the similar data structures, but there’s no attribution as to who controlled the data, or any hard links proving that these instances belonged to the same party,” said the research team.
What data was exposed?
The leaked information included ID numbers, full names, dates of birth and gender, contact details, and home addresses.
Record numbers exposed:
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Turkey (88,396,572 records)
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Egypt (77,744,912 records)
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Saudi Arabia (26,827,301 records)
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UAE (4,856,942 records)
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Mexico (8,740,000 records)
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South Africa (44,472,288 records)
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Canada (9,322,549 records)
Cybernews contacted the hosting providers, and as of now, the data is no longer publicly accessible.
To read the full research, please click here.
https://cybernews.com/security/identity-records-global-data-leak/
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