Indonesia data hit by cyberattack not backed up, officials say
government data affected by a recent ransomware cyberattack was not backed up, officials said, in an incident that has exposed the lack of preparations for such an attack in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
Last week's cyberattack, the worst in the country in recent years, has disrupted multiple government services including immigration and operations at major airports.
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Hinsa Siburian, an official who chairs Indonesia's cyber security agency known by its acronym BSSN, said 98% of the government data stored in one of the two compromised data centres had not been backed up.
«Generally we see the main problem is governance and there is no back-up,» he told a parliamentary hearing late on Thursday.
Some lawmakers dismissed the explanation.
«If there is no back up, that's not a lack of governance,» said Meutya Hafid, the chair of the commission overseeing the incident. «That's stupidity».
A BSSN spokesperson did not immediately respond when asked whether it would be possible to recover the encrypted data.
Budi Arie Setiadi, Indonesia's communications minister, said the ministry
