"34 Million Indonesian Passports Exposed in a Massive Immigration Directorate Data Breach"
Recently, over 34 million Indonesian passports were leaked in a massive data breach impacting the country’s Immigration Directorate General at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Cybersecurity researcher and founder of Ethical Hacker Indonesia, Teguh Aprianto, disclosed the breach, attributing the attack to a hacktivist identified as Bjorka. Indonesian authorities are investigating the breach while the threat actor has offered the treasure trove for sale on his data leak site. Aprianto posted a screenshot on his Twitter of the allegedly stolen 4GB of passport data, currently selling for $10,000. The hackers have provided 1 million data samples which appear to be valid. The timestamp is from the 2009-2020 period. The exposed data includes full names, passport numbers, dates of issue, expiry dates, dates of birth, and gender of 34.9 million Indonesian passport holders. Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has confirmed being notified of the alleged data leak.