"Dream - The data of State Civil Apparatus (ASN) owned by the National Civil Service Agency (BKN) is suspected to have leaked and been sold in the online world. This was discovered from a post by an account named TopiAx on Breachforums on August 10, 2024. The account claims to have successfully obtained data from BKN amounting to 4,759,218 rows containing a vast amount of data."

"Additionally, there are several other data types in the form of cleartext as well as text that has been processed using cryptographic methods. This data is offered at a price of US$10 thousand or around Rp160 million. The account also shares a data sample containing 128 ASN from various agencies in Aceh. To ensure this, the cybersecurity research institution CISSReC attempted to conduct random verification on 13 ASN whose names are listed in the data sample."

The National Civil Service Agency (BKN) collaborates with the Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) and the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) to identify and investigate the emergence of issues regarding the alleged data leak of ASN or civil servants. "This investigation aims to ensure the security of civil servant data and the necessary risk mitigation," said the Acting Head of the Bureau of Public Relations, Law, and Cooperation of BKN, Vino Dita Tama, on Monday, August 12, 2024.

"Vino ensures that this disruption is not affecting ASN management services, so it does not interfere with the operation of the electronic system accessed by the public. "However, we urge all BKN service users to promptly update their keywords or passwords, and keyword updates must be done periodically to avoid undesirable situations," he added."