Airport immigration was among services affected by a cyberattack last week on Indonesia’s national data center.JAKARTA — Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking group asking for a $8 million ransom that the government says it won’t pay.
The attackers have held data hostage and offered a key for access in return for the $8 million ransom, said PT Telkom Indonesia’s director of network & IT solutions, Herlan Wijanarko, without giving further details. “We have tried our best to carry out recovery while the is currently carrying out forensics,” Setiadi added.This Company Was Hit With a Devastating Ransomware Attack—But Instead of Giving In, It Rebuilt Everything
“The disruption to the national data center and days-long needed to recover the system means this ransomware attack was extraordinary,” Persadha said. “It shows that our cyber infrastructure and its server systems were not being handled well.”