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Indonesia's national data centre suffers ransomware attack


Impacts 210 databases belonging to central and regional institutions.

National Cyber and Crypto Agency’s (BSSN) head, Hinsa Siburian, said the facility was attacked by Brain Cipher, the latest variant of LockBit 3.0 ransomware. In response to the cyber incident, Indonesian Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna Laoly confirmed that immigration data has been relocated to a private cloud - Amazon Web Service, after the PDN showed no positive signs of recovery. Karim added that problems due to cyber attacks will usually take quite a long time, and hence they relocated data centre to restore public services.

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