"Indonesia Says a Cyberattack Has Compromised Its Data Center but It Won’t Pay the $8 Million Ransom"
Indonesia’s national data center has recently been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government won’t pay. Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan, the director general of informatics applications with the Communications and Informatics Ministry, said that the cyberattack has disrupted the services of more than 200 government agencies at both the national and regional levels since June 20. Pangerapan noted that some government services have returned (immigration services at airports and elsewhere are now functional), but efforts continue to restore other services, such as investment licensing. It was noted that they discovered samples of the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware during the investigation. The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.