WNAM REPORT: Indonesian officials have warned that data from the Presidential Staff Office of the country may have been hacked and leaked to the dark web.
Head of the Presidential Communications Office Hasan Nasbi reported on October 26 that the office has collaborated with the National Cyber and Crypto Agency and the Ministry of Communications and Informatics to identify vulnerabilities in the network information security system, which are still safe.
Earlier, the X account @stealthemole_int stated that more than 3,000 government data and information, including sensitive information, had been leaked.
Local media reported that there have been several cases of personal data breaches in Indonesia since a few years ago. The most recent incident involved a data breach after the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware cyberattack, which crippled the servers of the Temporary National Data Center in June 2024. This incident led to the disruption of several public services, including the immigration system at various airports.
After that, there were other data leak suspicions, such as the leak of 4.7 million civil servants’ data managed by the National Civil Service Agency in August 2024. Most recently, on September 18, 2024, the data of up to 6 million tax identification numbers managed by the Ministry of Finance was suspected to have been leaked.
