2026 Iraq IHEC — Knox electoral roll sale claim; ~31M people / 28M phones (unverified)
Data compromised
Per Dark Web Informer (unverified): ~31M people, ~28M phone numbers — names, voter card numbers, family record numbers, mothers’ names, DOBs, province/district/house numbers, registration centre IDs/names, registration status flags
Technical writeup
Unverified leak-site / forum sale claim — August 21, 2026 (Dark Web Informer). Forum owner Knox advertised what they described as Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) voter data for ~31 million people with ~28 million phone numbers, claiming August 2026 timing. Alleged fields include mothers’ names, family record numbers, voter card numbers, registration centres, and address granularity to house numbers — elevating identity-fraud and physical-safety risk if authentic. IHEC had not publicly confirmed at indexing. Distinct from legacy iraq-ihec2019 row. recordsAffected 31000000 = actor people-count (unverified).
Root cause
Unverified forum sale — actor Knox (forum owner) claims Independent High Electoral Commission voter data offered August 2026