Exclusive sources from the Ankara Cybercrime Division (speaking on condition of anonymity due to the current political climate) recall the panic.

Unlike the drips and drabs typical of state-sponsored leaks, this was a firehose. The archive contained approximately 49 gigabytes of compressed data, which expanded to over 170 GB of plain-text databases upon extraction. For any cybersecurity analyst, this was the holy grail of domestic surveillance.

The release contained over 300,000 emails and thousands of attachments.

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