Alleged ASN data leaked and sold by hackers on Internet forums

ASN data leaked – At the end of June 2024, citizens of Indonesia were shocked by the news that the government's PDN server had been infected with ransomware through a hacker attack. This caused great concern among many parties, not only the citizens but also the local government.

And recently there was news that the data of the State Civil Apparatus (ASN), belonging to the State Civil Service Agency (BKN), was leaked and sold on the hacker forum. Is this true?

ASN data leaked and sold on hacker forum

Based on the information received, it was found that ASN data was leaked on the internet and was being sold on breach forums by a hacker named TopiAx. It is alleged that the collection of data of the state civil apparatus was sold for $10,000 or around Rs 159.4 million.

Upon further investigation, the leaked ASN data contains numerous government ASN data starting from name, place and date of birth, position, agency, address, mobile number, email, CPNS and PNS data and others.

You can see the evidence below.

Government response

Aware of the government-level data leak, Pratama Persadha, Chairman of Cissrec Cyber ​​Security Research Institute, said that apart from the leaked data, there was a lot of other data, both in the form of plain text and in the form of text processed using cryptographic methods.

The data uploaded on the Breach forums is known to contain sample data with 128 ASNs from various agencies in Aceh province. He also stated that his party conducted random checks on 13 ASNs whose names were listed by contacting them via WhatsApp.

At the time of writing (8/11), there has been no official confirmation from the BKN and the Ministry of Communication and Information regarding the alleged ASN data leak. Cissrec has called on the government to establish a data protection authority for Indonesian citizens to prevent leaks that have become increasingly common recently.

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