Resolution to hacking cases in Indonesia still eludes all

Government websites often become the target of hacking from time to time, as it easily draws attention.

News pertaining to data leaks have continued to surface since the start of this year.

Cybersecurity expert Pratama Persadha remarked that annually, a leak is always reported in several government institutions, starting from the Health Ministry to Bank Indonesia (BI).

However, a resolution to the cases of hacking in Indonesia is nowhere to be found despite the authorities having responded to the data leak.

A case that recently came to light was a ransomware attack on the BI website.

As of January 26, 2022, BI’s 368 internal computers were claimed to have been hacked by a Conti ransomware group, with 1330 gigabytes of data being uploaded.

In connection with this data leak, the National Police (Polri) investigates this case and also communicates with BI, Polri’s Public Relations Head Dedi Prasetyo told ANTARA here on Thursday, January 20.

Moreover, Persadha drew attention to the state-owned oil company Pertamina’s leak case.

The website https://recruitment.pertamina-ptc.com still cannot be accessed to this day ever since the news of the data leak surfaced.

Several reasons behind the inaccessibility of the Pertamina Training and Consulting include an audit assessment that had yet to be conducted on the system in the government’s institution.

It is also likely that Pertamina is not yet confident that it has sterilized the system from the malware that the hacker utilized.

Moreover, it may not be sure that it could bolster its defence post-attack to make it safer from a takedown.

It should not take too long for an organization as large as Pertamina to deal with this type of problem, especially since the website involves a third party and utilizes a service level agreement (SLA).

This means, with SLA, there is standardization and accountability regarding the website’s service and others, such as its security.

Points within the SLA are crucial since during several recent hacking cases, the perpetrator had attacked the weakest segment, such as the…

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