In this report, our firm have gathered the recent decisions,
notifications, announcements and guidelines issued by Turkey's
Data Protection Authority ("Authority") in February
2019.
A Cyber Attack Hits Turkey's Auto-Leasing Industry
Between January 31, 2019 and February 20, 2019, Turkey's six
automobile leasing and rent-a-car companies notified Turkey's
Data Protection Authority ("Authority") that personal
data of their clients might have been stolen. The Authority decided
to publish these six companies' data breach notifications on
its web-site.
All five notification have one common name, "Optimum",
as a reason of the notifications. Optimum is the road-assistance,
repair, towing services provider with which all of these five
companies have business relationship. Reportedly, Optimum was
targeted by a cyber-attack and the data kept in Optimum's
database was accessed by unauthorized users.
