DATA BREACH NOTIFICATION FROM TURKON HOLDİNG A.Ş. AND THE GROUP COMPANIES

17 April 2020

The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”), published a press release on 16.04.2020 and announced that Turkon Holding A.Ş. and the Group Companies have reported data breach to the Personal Data Protection Board ("Board").

Turkon Holding A.Ş. and its group companies; Turkon Konteyner Taşımacılık ve Denizcilik A.Ş., Turkon Demiryolu Taşımacılık A.Ş., Turkon Lojistik A.Ş., Turkon Taşımacılık A.Ş., Anadolu Turizm Yatırımları A.Ş., Kanlıca Denizcilik ve Ticaret A.Ş. ve Kaşif Denizcilik A.Ş. sent the data breach notification to the Board on 13.04.2020.  With this notification, Turon Holding A.Ş. and the Group Companies has informed the Board as data controllers on these subjects;

  • The data breach has occured as a result of the encryption of the servers and backup systems in the local network of Turkon, because of the phishing attack of a user on the terminal server,
  • The breach took place on 05.04.2020 and detected on 06.04.2020,
  • The personal data affected by the breach were identity, contact, legal transaction, customer transaction, finance and marketing information and audiovisual records,
  • The number of estimated persons and records affected by the violation has not been determined yet.

The Board decided to continue the investigation regarding the data breach notification and publish the data breach notifications on the website of the Authority.

You can find the texts of the public announcement (in Turkish) here.

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