2.3 Million KPU Voters' Data Leaked In Hacker Forum

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JAKARTA - The data on millions of Indonesian citizens and voters at the General Election Commission (KPU) is suspected to have leaked in the hacker community forum. This news was first disclosed by the @underthebreach account on Twitter.

This Twitter account is active enough to monitor hacker activity, especially those related to leaks of personal information. He also briefly informed about the sale of 91 million Tokopedia user data on the dark web.

Through his tweet, this account uploaded three screenshots of the KPU folder and sample data published on hacker forums. According to him, 2.3 million identity data were leaked.

Actor leaks information on 2,300,000 Indonesian citizens. Data includes names, addresses, ID numbers, birth dates, and more. Appears to date back to 2013. Actor claims he will leak 200,000,000 additional citizens information soon. pic.twitter.com/xVWhOGOhtX

- Under the Breach (underthebreach) May 21, 2020

"These data include name, address, NIK, date of birth and others. These data are from 2014. Hackers claim they still have 200 million more data," Tweet @underthebreach, Thursday, May 21.

From VOI's search, the hacker said the data was stored in .pdf format obtained from the General Election Commission website. According to him, these data will be very useful for those who wish to register an account.

"Very useful for those who need to create multiple phone numbers in IDs (you need ID NIK and NKK for registration), or do some extracting phone numbers from those IDs," wrote the hacker.

This hacker also claims that he still has 200,000,000 other Indonesian citizens' data that will be shared through the forum. "I think Indonesian data seems rare in this forum," he said.

Some of the population data displayed includes full name, family card number, Identity Number (NIK), place and date of birth, home address, and several other personal data. From the sample data he shared, most of the leaked information came from residents in Yogyakarta.

The distributed data sample contains folders of voter data from a number of regions in Yogyakarta, including their registered polling stations. The data is compressed in a 1.78GB file which can be obtained after paying 8 euros on the forum.

A number of netizens who have responded to the @underthebreach tweet have also tweeted to the KPU, Kemenkominfo and a number of other official government accounts. Until now, there has been no response from the KPU regarding the leakage of millions of voter data.