medium severity July 19, 2016 · 1 min read

AKP Emails Data Breach (2016)

If you are a customer of AKP Emails, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In July 2016, a hacker known as Phineas Fisher hacked Turkey's ruling party (Justice and Development Party or "AKP") and gained access to 300k emails. The full contents of the emails were subsequently published by WikiLeaks and made searchable. HIBP identified over 917k unique email address patterns in the data set, including message IDs and a number of other non-user addresses.

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

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value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

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Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

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unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a AKP Emails customer?

AKP Emails is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

917K accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity Medium contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed July 19, 2016

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 917K

Data exposed Email addressesEmail messages

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Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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