Security News > 2021 > May > Indonesian govt blocks access to RaidForums hacking forum after data leak

The Indonesian government is blocking access to the RaidForums hacking forum after the alleged personal information of Indonesian citizens was posted online.

While the Indonesian government has not confirmed if the data is legitimate, they have performed a random investigation of 1 million records and believe a more thorough investigation needs to be conducted by the government's information technology and cybersecurity agencies.

"To date, Kominfo has identified a larger amount of data and expanded its investigation of around 1 million data that sellers claim to be sample data," says Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information in a statement.

As first reported by KrASIA, to prevent the further spread of the leaked data, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is blocking access to the RaidForums forum.

This is likely to lead to a game of whack-a-mole as more download links have already surfaced on the hacking forum and in other sites where threat actors commonly share leaked data.

It is not known if last week's data leak is connected to this same threat actor.

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