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Data breaches still haunt Indonesia
Data breaches still haunt the country even after the government enacted the privacy law last year, with the latest alleged breach causing disruption to services provided by the country’s largest sharia bank.
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ata breaches still haunt the country even after the government enacted the privacy law last year, with the latest alleged breach causing disruption to the services provided by the country’s largest sharia bank.
In a screenshot posted on Twitter on Saturday, Dark Tracer, an intelligence platform that monitors malicious activities in cyberspace, revealed that a hacker group known as the LockBit ransomware had claimed to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data managed by state-owned Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI).
The hacker group, which uses malicious software LockBit 3.0 that blocks user access to computer systems, claimed to hold BSI’s data, including its customers' and employees’ contact details, financial documents, card details and passwords of the customers.
The hacker group demanded the bank management contact them to negotiate before 4:09 a.m. on Tuesday, otherwise they would release all the data on the dark web.
The alleged data breach first surfaced on May 11, when BSI chief executive Hery Gunardi told a press briefing that the bank has found indications of a cyberattack that caused disruption to all services at BSI, including its mobile banking, ATMs and branch offices from May 8. But as of May 11, all of its services had been recovered.
He apologized to BSI customers for the service disruption and said that “customer funds and data are safe”, as quoted by Kompas.id.
BSI did not respond to The Jakarta Post’s question about the demands by the hacker group.
