"Dukcapil, together with the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) and other stakeholders, has carried out a quick audit and found no traces of data leakage in the SIAK," director general of population and civil registration, Teguh Setyabudi, said here on Monday.
Even so, the investigation will be continued to find out more about the alleged population data leak, he added.
According to him, the audit is currently directed at the population database managed by the district/city governments.
"The investigative audit process is still ongoing to deepen the allegations of leakage, including databases in districts/cities," he said.
He added that his side has continued to carry out preventive mitigation against data leaks.
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On July 15, 2023, a Twitter user @DailyDarkWeb reported that as many as 337,225,465 rows of population data managed by Dukcapil had been sold on a hacker forum.
In a screenshot of the hacker forum's page shared by @DailyDarkWeb, a hacker with account name RRR claimed to have obtained 337 million rows of data from the dukcapil.kemendagri.go.id website.
The data contained vital information such as population identification numbers (NIK), place of birth, religion, marital status, divorce certificate, mother's name, occupation, and passport numbers.
Setyabudi said that the format of the population data that was allegedly leaked was different from the one followed by Dukcapil's database.
Meanwhile, Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Bambang Soesatyo, on Monday asked the Home Affairs Ministry to conduct an in-depth investigation into the alleged data leak.
He asked the ministry to coordinate with the BSSN, the National Police's Cyber Team, and the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo).
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