JAKARTA - Director General of Information and Public Communication at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Usman Kansong, said that his party would investigate the alleged leak of 337 million population data.
"Our population is 275 million, there are 300 million, which means there is an excess, therefore we will check what it is like," said Usman in Jakarta, Antara, Monday, July 17.
Usman said the Ministry of Communication and Information would summon the data controller, in this case the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri).
Apart from that, he said, his party will also coordinate with the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN). The Ministry of Communication and Information will first hear reports from both parties.
If a data leak is later discovered, BSSN will carry out an audit to find out the amount and what data was leaked, then the results of the audit will be reported to the Ministry of Communication and Information.
"We will see if there is poor data control, it is regulated in PP (Government Regulation) Number 71 of 2019 (concerning the Implementation of Electronic Systems and Transactions) what sanctions we can impose on data controllers," he said.
Previously, the alleged data leak case was first revealed by a Twitter account named user @DailyDarkWeb on Saturday (15/7). In one of its uploads, the account stated that 337,225,465 rows of population data managed by the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration of the Ministry of Home Affairs were sold on hacker forums.
In a screenshot of the hacker forum page shared by the Daily Dark Web account, the hacker with the account name RRR claims to have obtained 337 million rows of data from the official website dukcapil.kemendagri.go.id.
Hundreds of millions of data contain a number of pieces of information, such as population identification number (NIK), date of birth, religion, marital status, divorce certificate, mother's name, occupation and passport number.
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