Ransomware attack on Indonesia's national infrastructure disrupts services
A ransomware attack in Indonesia disrupted immigration services and national infrastructure. It emerged that the backups required for recovery were missing, and the attackers apologised and released the decryption key free of charge. Indonesia then began recovering the data.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Government of Indonesia
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption to immigration services and national infrastructure operations
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- Indonesia
Timeline
- A hack of the immigration system raised concerns about the safety of personal data.
- The lack of backups for the data hit by ransomware came to light.
- The attackers released the decryption key free of charge.
- An Indonesian official resigned in the aftermath of the ransomware attack.
- The Indonesian government said it had begun recovering the data.
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