Ransomware at Indonesia's National Data Centre disrupts public services
Indonesia's National Data Centre was hit by a Brain Cipher ransomware attack, disrupting public services. Recovery was delayed, and a weak password was identified as the cause of the breach. Civil society group ELSAM urged the government to notify citizens of the personal data leak.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Government of Indonesia
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Outage of the National Data Centre and disruption of public services
- Cause / method
- Breach through a weak password and Brain Cipher ransomware attack
- Location
- Indonesia
Timeline
- Brain Cipher ransomware was identified as the cause of the National Data Centre outage.
- ELSAM urged the government to notify citizens of the personal data leak.
- Disruption of public services continued as recovery was delayed.
- The weak password Admin#1234 was identified as the cause of the breach.
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