Investigating Allegedly 2 Million Customer Data Leaks, Bareskrim Opens Opportunity To Check BRI Life

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JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police has opened the possibility of examining BRI Life regarding the alleged leak of 2 million customer data. This check is to ensure that there is a leak in their system.

"Later the direction is there (check BRI Life)," said the Director of Special Economic Crimes, Brigadier General Helmy Santika to VOI, Thursday, July 29.

For the development of the investigation process, Helmy said there was nothing significant. So far, his party is still looking for the facts or the truth of the alleged leak of BRI Life customer data.

"Still being investigated, where is the leak? Like what?" he said.

In addition, his party must first coordinate with the Directorate of Cyber Crime (Dittipidsiber). The reason, the emergence of this case started from the news that went viral on social media.

So, continued Helmy, cyber parties will dig up information and clues regarding the truth of the alleged data leak.

"Initially it appeared on twitter or social media and then the media took it. So we had to investigate it first in coordination with the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit," said Helmy.

For your information, news about the hacking of BRI Life customer data was first revealed by Hudson Rock, a cyber security company in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 27.

The company found evidence that several computers belonging to BRI and BRI Life employees had been hacked and paved the way for access to personal data belonging to around 2 million customers.

One of the founders and boss of Hudson Rock, on his personal Twitter showed several videos and photos containing leaked BRI Life customer data. Among the data there are photos of ID cards, bank accounts, NPWP numbers, family cards, photos of account books, account numbers, and reports on customer laboratory examination results.