Fresh data breach puts pressure on Indonesian government to form cyber privacy agency

A hacker going by the pseudonym TopiAx claimed over the weekend that they had stolen the data of 4.7 million civil servants from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) database and uploaded them to sell on the hacking site BreachForums. – The Jakarta Post

JAKARTA: Pressure is again mounting on the government to establish a new agency overseeing cyber privacy, just two months before the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law goes into full effect, following fresh reports alleging that data stolen from a civil service database are being sold on the dark web.

A hacker going by the pseudonym TopiAx claimed over the weekend that they had stolen the data of 4.7 million civil servants from the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) database and uploaded them to sell on the hacking site BreachForums.