Iraq
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Iraqi Electoral Commission Data Allegedly Offered for Sale, Covering 31 Million Citizens
A forum user posting as Knox is selling what they describe as voter registration data from Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission, claiming records on 31 million Iraqis including 28 million phone numbers, with the intrusion dated to August 2026. The published field list is comprehensive: full name, voter card number, family record number, mother's name, exact date of birth, province and district of residence, house number, phone number, and the number and name of the centre where each person is registered to vote. If accurate, the set would cover most of the adult population of the country. The claim is unverified.
▣Post details
Iraq!Allegedly included
- Full names
- Voter card numbers
- Family record numbers
- Mothers' names
- Exact dates of birth
- Province of residence
- District of residence
- House numbers
- Registration centre numbers
- Registration centre names
- Personal phone numbers
- Registration status flags
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⚠Potential impact
Scale alone would make this severe, but the field selection is what makes it close to irreversible. Mother's name is a standard verification question across banking and telecom in the region, and it sits here beside an exact date of birth, an official card number and a family record number, which together satisfy most identity checks a person would ever face. None of it can be changed. With 28 million phone numbers attached to named individuals at known districts and house numbers, fraud and SIM swap campaigns become possible at national scale. The registration centre fields carry a different kind of risk: they place each named person at a specific location and, read across a district, describe the composition of a population in a country where political affiliation has historically drawn violence. That makes this a physical safety matter for some individuals, not only a privacy one.
iStatus
UnverifiedThe same caution applies as to this actor's recent hospital listing. The thread carries a verified marker, but the poster is the forum's owner and administrator, so the badge reflects the seller's own platform rather than independent scrutiny. The sample is structurally plausible, showing Arabic language records whose components line up with the stated fields, though a sample proves the format rather than the volume, and 31 million is the seller's own figure. No detail is given about how the data was obtained or from which system, and the commission has not commented. Dark Web Informer is not reproducing the sample records, which contain named individuals with their dates of birth, card numbers and phone numbers, nor the contact routes. The claim is unverified.
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