SIM Card Data Leaks, Public Privacy in Peril

By Editorial Team 05/09/2022
Data privacy
Summary

The government is investigating the alleged leak of 1.3 billion prepaid SIM card registration data. Home Affairs Ministry's director general of population and civil registry Zudan Arif Fakrullah confirmed that the data in question appeared on https://brebed.to but denied that they came from the database of his institution. "There was no log access, traffic, and suspicious anomaly access in our system," Zudan said on Friday.

The leak came from Breached's forum user, Bjorka, on August 31. He claimed to have seized the data of 1,304,401,300 SIM card numbers in Indonesia containing user identities, population identification numbers (NIK), cellular operators, and registration dates. Such sensitive data, stored in 18 and 87 gigabytes files, were sold for US$50,000 and paid in Ethereum.

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