Bareskrim BNPB YouTube Account Hacker Profiling

JAKARTA - The National Police's Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) has begun to map the perpetrators of hacking the YouTube account of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). Currently, the Directorate of Cyber Crime is also profiling the perpetrators.

"Profiling (of perpetrators) by Dittipidsiber," said the Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo when asked for confirmation, Friday, December 10.

However, Dedi has not been able to detail the results of the profiling carried out. Including, the existence of the perpetrators of the hack.

The reason is that the investigation is still ongoing. The clues continue to be collected until they lead to the perpetrators.

"It's still being handled. It's still an investigation," said Dedi.

The official YouTube account of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) is undergoing a hack, where the profile photo looks different from before turning into an Ethereum crypto asset profile.

The channel was previously owned by BNPB Indonesia, and is now Ethereum 2.0. The channel is now broadcasting a discussion about crypto by the founder of Ethereum himself, Vitalik Buterin, and has been conducting live broadcasts that have been monitored since this morning.

The BNPB Indonesia YouTube channel usually broadcasts information about natural disasters, webinars, and press releases. From the observations of VOI, the last video uploaded by the channel includes a discussion of the International Briefing Season related to COVID-19 and a video about reviewing the location after the eruption of Mount Semeru.

So far, no old Indonesian BNPB videos or playlists have been deleted by the hacker. So far, BNPB has not responded to the hack.