Security News > 2022 > January > Indonesia's central bank confirms ransomware attack, Conti leaks data
Bank Indonesia, the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia, has confirmed today that a ransomware attack hit its networks last month.
During the incident, the attackers stole "Non-critical data" belonging to Bank Indonesia employees before deploying ransomware payloads on over a dozen systems on the bank's network, as CNN Indonesia reported.
"We were attacked, but so far so good as we took anticipatory measures and most importantly public services at Bank Indonesia were not disrupted at all," the head of BI's communications department, Erwin Haryono, said.
While Haryono did not attribute the attack to a specific ransomware gang, Conti has claimed the attack today after leaking some files allegedly stolen from Bank Indonesia's network.
In all, the ransomware group claims to have 13.88 GB worth of documents to leak if Bank Indonesia doesn't pay the ransom.
Due to increased Conti activity, the FBI, CISA, and the NSA US have also recently issued an advisory warning of an increased number of Conti ransomware attacks.
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