Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Ministry of Defense has opened its voice regarding the alleged breach of the Ministry of Defense website and the sale of confidential documents on the internet black market which is usually called the dark web.
Head of Public Relations of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Edwin Adrian Sumantha, said that the Ministry of Defense was still investigating the alleged hacking.
“We need to convey that we are currently investigating this matter with the relevant parties at the Ministry of Defense,” said Edwin as quoted by detikcom, Thursday (2/11/2023).
He explained that the Ministry of Defense website has now been temporarily disabled to check the truth of the hack by hackers.
“We are currently deactivating the Ministry of Defense website temporarily in order to check the network regarding this matter,” he said. “We will provide an update once there is clear and reliable information,” said Edwin.
The news that the Ministry of Defense website was hacked went viral on social media via X, previously known as Twitter. The spreader was the Fusion Intelligence Center account @StealthMole which said that a hacker claimed to have hacked the Indonesian Ministry of Defense website and sold secret documents and access to the site.
“A hacker claimed to have successfully hacked the Indonesian Ministry of Defense and posted a message on the black market, offering to sell the website’s secret and sensitive documents, as well as admin access,” wrote the Fusion Intelligence Center.
The hacker also said to have shared screenshots of hacking evidence. The hacker also claimed that the server contained around 1.64 TB of data.
“If the claims are true, the way the hackers gained access to the website will be investigated in the future. However one possible scenario is the use of accounts leaked by the Stealer malware. We can confirm that approximately 1,484 credentials related to the Ministry of Defense were exposed on the web dark because of the Stealer malware,” he continued.
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