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2.3 Million KPU Voters' Data Leaked in Hacker Forum

2.3 Million KPU Voters' Data Leaked in the Hacker Forum

JAKARTA – The data on millions of Indonesian citizens and voters at the General Election Commission (KPU) is suspected to have leaked in community forums hackers. This news was first disclosed by the @underthebreach account on Twitter.

This Twitter account is quite active in monitoring activity hackers, especially those related to the leakage of personal data information. He also briefly informed about the sale of 91 million data from Tokopedia users dark web.

Through his tweets, this account uploaded three screenshots of the KPU folder and sample data published on hacker forums. According to him, 2.3 million identity data were leaked.

“These data include name, address, NIK, date of birth and others. These data are from 2014. Hackers claim they still have 200 million more data,” Tweet @underthebreach, Thursday, May 21.

From search VOI, the hacker said the data was stored in .pdf format obtained from the KPU website. According to him, this data will be very useful for those who want to register an account.

“Very useful for those who need to create multiple phone numbers in IDs (you need ID NIK and NKK for registration), or do some extracting phone numbers from those IDs,” wrote the hacker.

This hacker also claims that he still has 200,000,000 other Indonesian citizens’ data that will be shared through the forum. “I think Indonesia’s data is rarely seen in this forum,” he said.

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Some of the population data displayed includes full name, family card number, National Identity Number (NIK), place and date of birth, home address, and several other personal data. From the sample data he shared, most of the leaked information came from residents in Yogyakarta.

The distributed data sample contains folders of voter data from a number of regions in Yogyakarta, including their registered polling stations. The data is compressed in a file of 1.78GB which can be obtained after paying 8 euros on the forum.

A number of netizens who have responded to the @underthebreach tweet have also tweeted to the KPU, the Ministry of Communication and Information and a number of other official government accounts. Until now there has been no response from the KPU regarding the leakage of millions of voter data.

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