Pertamina Gandeng Telkom Holds Investigations On Bjorka News Selling Data 44 Million MyPertamina Users

MyPertamina application. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Bjorka hackers are back in action. This time he stated that he had data on 44 million MyPertamina users and would be sold for 25 thousand US dollars or Rp. 392 million.

"MyPertamina is a digital financial service platform from Pertamina that integrated with the apps LinkAja. This application is used for non-cash fuel oil payments at Pertamina's public fueling stations," Bjorka wrote in his upload on the BreachForum website on Thursday, November 10.

MyPertamina is a digital financial services platform from Pertamina that is integrated with the LinkAja application. This application is used for non-cash payments when refueling at gas stations.

He also wrote that the data consisted of compressed files of 6 GB and was uncompressed by 30 GB, with a total of 44.24 million data.

Meanwhile, the data form they have is claimed to be in the form of name, email, Population Identification Number (NIK), Taxpayer Number (NPWP), telephone number, address, DOB, gender, income (daily, monthly, annually), and others.

"PRICE 25K USD. BTC ONLY," he continued.

Responding to this, Pertamina Patra Niaga Corporate Secretary Irto Ginting stated that his party was investigating to ensure the data and information of MyPertamina users.

"Pertamina and Telkom are conducting a joint investigation to ensure data and information security related to MyPertamina," he said briefly when contacted by VOI, Thursday, November 10.

Previously, Bjorka had sold 26 million search history data in the browser owned by Indihome customers and public data obtained from the General Elections Commission (KPU).

it is suspected that the hacker managed to hack as much as 105 million Indonesian population data and sold for US$5,000 or equivalent to Rp74 million.