Solo City Government Instagram Hacked, Gibran Chooses Report To Facebook

SOLO - Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka reported the Instagram hack belonging to the Surakarta City Government @pemkot_solo to Facebook, which is the parent company of Instagram.

The Instagram account was hacked several times since Friday, October 8 afternoon. In fact, until Saturday, October 9 afternoon, the account was still deactivated for further security.

Gibran Rakabuming Raka has also instructed his staff to strengthen passwords or passwords by changing them frequently.

"That's the email as well, just change it all at once," he said as quoted by Antara, Saturday, October 9.

However, so far they have no intention of reporting the incident to the police.

Gibran assesses the incident does not need to react excessively.

"Ngopo was reported to the police (why did he report it to the police). Usually, one day, two days he will come back again," he said.

Previously, on Friday, October 8 at 16.29 WIB, the official account belonging to the Surakarta City Government was hacked by an irresponsible person. Gibran said that the email from the account was changed by someone so that the official admin could not log in.

"Sorry for the inconvenience," he said.

Meanwhile, as long as it cannot be accessed by official admin officers, a number of video memes appear to be uploaded on the account. However, at this time the account cannot be accessed because it is under security.