Task Force Must Conduct Thorough Investigation
The government should be able to anticipate recurring breaches with the current equipment it had. However, cyber resilience was virtually lacking in all state ministries and agencies.
SOE Minister Erick Thohir on Monday (12/9/2022) responded to his data that was leaked to the public by hackers Bjorka..
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The data protection taskforce, made up of intergovernmental institutions, should not only investigate data breaches conducted by the mysterious Bjorka hacker. As breaches of personal data have continued to grow since the first such incidence in 2019, the task force should also thoroughly investigate the latest case so it does not cause further harm to the public.
In 2019, according to the results of the Kompas investigation, the personal data of more than 100,000 individuals were circulated among marketing personnel. In the following years, data breaches affected 297 million members of the BPJS Kesehatan universal health insurance. After that, the public was again shocked when the data of around 26 million customers of cable TV and internet provider IndiHome were sold online. Most recently, a hacker named Bjorka claimed to have obtained personal data linked to around 1.3 billion registered SIM cards in Indonesia.