Indonesia says it has begun recovering data after major ransomware attack


JAKARTA: Indonesia said it is beginning to recover data that had been encrypted in a major ransomware attack last month which affected more than 160 government agencies.

The attackers identified as Brain Cipher asked for US$8 million in ransom to unlock the data before later apologising and releasing the decryption key for free, according to Singapore-based cybersecurity firm StealthMole.

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