86 Public Cyber Services Recover After Ransomware Hacked

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto (Photo: Doc. Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs)

JAKARTA - Service recovery at the Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) 2 has been carried out in stages. Until now, the government has succeeded in restoring 86 public services, out of 16 tenants.

"As of July 12, at 17.30 WIB, 86 services from 16 ministries, institutions and local governments have gone live," said Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto in a statement, quoted on Sunday, July 14.

Hadi also stated that efforts to restore PDNS 2 services were carried out by a team consisting of the Ministry of Communication and Information, BSSN, PT Telkom Tbk, and active participation from all tenants.

The services that have been successfully restored include licensing services as well as information services in the form of portals, including scholarship services managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology.

Since the granting of the decryption key by the Brain Cipher ransomware group, Hadi stated that currently the team is still making efforts to restore public services as quickly as possible.

According to the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, the process of restoring this service will be divided into three stage zones based on data handling techniques.

"We divide it into three zones. The incident-affected data on PDNS 2 is in the red zone, and it is set in the process of quarantine'. Next we will move it to the blue zone to strengthen security and scan vulnerabilities, before it can go-live or public service data is uploaded to other data centers to green zones that are ready to be reused," he explained.

Hadi also promised that each stage of this recovery would be carried out carefully and carefully, in order to minimize the gap for cyber attacks that could enter and have an impact on public services.

"The government is cleaning up data from malware or suspicious viruses from data that have been saved, while strengthening the infrastructure security parameters", he concluded.