Cyber Security Experts Call Bjorka Not Just Selling Personal Data, But Caring For Issues In Indonesia

Cybersecurity expert Pratama Persadha. (photo: image/voi)

JAKARTA - Cybersecurity expert Pratama Persadha said Bjorka is quite an expert on hackers and cares deeply about the issues that exist in Indonesia.

According to Pratama, Bjorka is not only stealing government personal data, but also taking part in political issues in Indonesia.

"When he publishes the stolen data, he not only sells the data, he also interferes with political issues in Indonesia. I rarely see hackers taking advantage of this data, usually hackers only steal and then sell it, so they don't care about the issue," said Pratama during the Importance of Trust & Transparency: ICT Supply Chain Landscape Kaspersky event in South Jakarta, Tuesday, October 25.

Because of this, said Pratama, many suspects that Bjorka is an Indonesian, and is a hacker who is not an individual group.

"That's why many are suspicious that Bjorka is an Indonesian. From the existing indications, it seems that he really understands what is happening in Indonesia. Bjorka is also not just one person, because coincidentally on August 31 when he sold the data, I entered the channel on Telegram, we had a debate too, I asked him if he had the data (the government), it turned out that he really had the data," said Pratama.

"Bjorka said a little on Telegram, not much like on Twitter, so I think Bjorka is one group, and because he understands very well what is in Indonesia, he must be in touch with our people," he added.

Furthermore, Pratama has also tried to trace Bjorka's footsteps, but he has not managed to find out who this figure is.

"I also did an attempted tracking, but I haven't found it, I just got some of his networks but I didn't find the figure," explained Pratama.

Currently, Pratama asked the Indonesian government not to focus solely on looking for Bjorka, but also to fix the entire system so that this data hacking incident does not happen again.

"The cyber force in our government is still lacking and weak, there is no need to find out who Bjorka is already leaking. How should we make improvements to the entire system in our government," said Pratama.

Even so, Pratama does not deny that the government can catch the hacker who claims to be from Poland.

"But can it be caught? Yes, but take time, waiting for hackers to be weak or have mistakes, waiting for them to communicate with other people who cause them to have new weaknesses caught. So if serious hackers are difficult to catch," said Pratama.

"For that now the focus is on how we secure existing systems so hackers cannot enter," he added.