Govt Websites Easily Hacked, Citizens’ Data Sold Freely
BPJS Kesehatan continues to deny that the data sold on RaidForums came from the agency. Meanwhile, the National Police have been unable to identify the perpetrators of the data theft and sale.
The Twitter account @son1x777 first shared screenshots of the attack on the BSSN website, on Monday (25/10/2021). Meanwhile, the site that was hacked was the site of the National Malware Center (Pusmanas) belonging to BSSN, https://pusmanas.bssn.go.id/.
Hackers are targeting the weaknesses in government websites. They not only change the appearance of the websites, but also steal data to trade on the internet.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS—In May 2021, an account named Kotz on hacker hub RaidForums (raidforums.com) claimed to have the personal data of more than 270 million Indonesian citizens obtained from the Health and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan). Kotz sold the data for 0.35 Bitcoin, around Rp 297,850,000 according to the rate on the Indodax crypto exchange at 3:08 p.m. on Thursday (28/10/2021).