Cominfo Intervenes To Investigate Leak Of 279 BPJS Health Data

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) immediately intervened and investigated the case of leakage of Indonesian Identity Card (KTP) data on internet forums. Moreover, 279 million of the data is suspected to come from BPJS Kesehatan and traded.

"The Ministry of Communication and Information is deepening the alleged data leak," Said Ministry of Information Spokesman Dedy Permadi in a brief message on Thursday, May 20.

The data leak began to be known after the account @ndagels tweeted at least 279 million data belonging to Indonesian citizens (WNI) sold by hackers. Data leak includes not only Residence Number (NIK) but also status of life or death up to salary.

And here we go. Full data of the entire country's population. Including salaries and data of dead people. Personal data protec whaaaaaaat?? pic.twitter.com/yZpWp6xTe8

— Nuice Media (@nuicemedia) May 20, 2021

It is not yet known exactly where the data came from and how it was obtained. However, 279 million indonesian data has been sold on raid forums since May 12, 2021.

The data owner even sold 279 million data and important information for 0.15 bitcoin or the equivalent of Rp87 million.

Data leak is not only this time, 180 million indonesian data were also sold in the forum on November 27, 2020. The data is known to be related to voter data in the 2019 General Election.

BPJS Raises The Talk

Head of Public Relations of BPJS Iqbal Anas Ma'ruf confirmed that it is conducting further searches to ascertain whether the leaked data is from BPJS Kesehatan or not.

"We have deployed a special team to track and find the source as soon as possible," he said, while also confirming that BPJS Kesehatan consistently ensures the safety of participants' data.

Iqbal explained, with complex big data stored on BPJS servers, BPJS Kesehatan has a strict and layered data security system. This is part of efforts to ensure the confidentiality of such data including jkn-kis participant data.