State data center saves on backups – total data loss

July 5, 2024
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On June 20, there was a large-scale disruption of digital services in Indonesia: It emerged that a government data center had been attacked and partially encrypted using ransomware. There were no backups, as they were saved for cost reasons.

After a Ransomware attack on the Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) In Indonesia, it emerged that the national data center had no backup plan. Now even Indonesia's President Widodo has ordered an audit of state data centers. After all, there are no backup copies for most of the stored data.

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Saved: No backups after ransomware attack

On June 20, there was an attack with a new variant of the LockBit malware Brain Cipher. Apparently, a lot of data was encrypted. Due to the lack of backups, the data could not be restored. The ransom demanded is said to be around 8 million US dollars. However, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Budi Arie Setiadi, does not want to pay the amount demanded.

According to the minister, there are sufficient backup capacities in the data centers for the authorities. However, their use has been optional up to now. In order to save budget, the backups were therefore not booked. In the future, however, this will be the standard and no longer optional. The authorities are currently trying to decrypt the data again.

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In Europe and the USA, laws ensure that such a situation cannot become a reality. Companies should not cut back on backups either. On the contrary: in addition to backups Sensitive data should be stored in non-modifiable storage.

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