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Lintasarta, Indosat deny responsibility for ransomware attack
The company, a subsidiary of publicly listed telecom giant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) group, stated that the accused individual left the company on Aug. 4, 2021.
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Illustration of a data center (Courtesy of ABB)
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elecommunications company Lintasarta has denied responsibility for the actions of a former employee that allegedly led to a ransomware attack that crippled a temporary national data center and disrupted many public services last month.
The company, a subsidiary of publicly listed telecom giant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) group, stated that the accused individual left the company on Aug. 4, 2021.
“Lintasarta has not been connected to any actions taken by this individual since August 2021, making these accusations baseless,” Lintasarta CEO office general manager Triharry Darmawan Oetji said on Friday in a statement.
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The temporary national data center is fully managed by the Communications and Information Ministry through infrastructure services provided by state-owned telecom firm PT Telkom’s subsidiary Telkomsigma and network services from Lintasarta.
Allegations surfaced online in the first week of July suggesting that someone on the inside was responsible for leaking a document containing data center credentials belonging to the Communications and Information Ministry, which had ceased to be circulated online long before the ransomware attack occurred on June 20.
Social media posts pointed to a document titled “Temporary National Data Center Service Access Document (Government Cloud),” which was uploaded on Scribd.com on Oct. 11, 2022, using an account under the name Dicky Prasetya Admadja with a profile picture indicating past affiliation with Lintasarta.
