IndiHome Users' Data Leaked, Government to Summon Telkom

TheIndonesia.id - The Communication and Informatics Ministry is still studying a report on the alleged leak of IndiHome subscribers ' personal data. The ministry will soon summon the management of state-owned telecommunication operator PT Telkom Indonesia as the holding company to clarify the incident, the ministry's director general of informatics application, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, said in a written statement released on Sunday, August 21, 2022.

Pangerapan said the ministry will also ask Telkom to explain its steps to follow up on the report. "The Communication and Informatics Ministry will soon issue a technical recommendation to better protect the personal data of Telkom (subscribers) while at the same time coordinating with the National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN)," he said.

 Meanwhile, Telkom and IndiHome Group had yet to confirm the report of the alleged data leak

 Earlier information had it that the browsing history data of IndiHome internet service users leaked and uploaded to illegal websites. The personal data of 26,730.,798 IndiHome subscribers leaked as per data obtained in August 2022.

The exposed data are in the form of surfing history on the internet, such as dates, passwords, domains, platforms, browsers, and URL links.

The other data of users including residence identification cards (KTP), email addresses, cellular phone numbers, and sex also leaked.

On Sunday, Vaksincom cyber security expert Alfons Tanujaya said the report of the IndiHome user data leak is likely true. He alleged that the leak came from the service provider server.

Alfons said browsing history data is dangerous for users because someone with good knowledge of big data can use it to see and understand (profiling) the users' habits.

 The data leak will also be dangerous if it falls to cyber criminals because they can observe the users' habits and then design activities to cheat victims.