BRI Life, the insurance coverage arm of Indonesia’s Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), mentioned on Tuesday it was investigating claims that the non-public particulars of over two million of its clients had been marketed on the market by unidentified hackers.

Hudson Rock, a cybercrime monitoring agency, advised Reuters that it had discovered proof that confirmed that a number of computer systems belonging to BRI and BRI Life staff had been compromised.

“We are checking with the team and will provide an update as soon as the investigation is done,” BRI Life CEO Iwan Pasila mentioned in a textual content message.

In a later assertion, BRI Life mentioned its investigation was being performed with an impartial group specialising in cybersecurity to carry out digital tracing and to take the mandatory steps to enhance knowledge safety for coverage holders.

Ade Nasution, BRI Life’s company secretary, mentioned the corporate was making most effort to guard the info of its coverage holders, including the corporate had by no means offered private knowledge to any “irresponsible parties”.

In a submit on the RaidForums web site on Tuesday, an unnamed person mentioned they have been promoting a group of 460,000 paperwork compiled from the person knowledge of over two million BRI Life purchasers for $7,000 (roughly Rs. 5.2 lakh).

The submit was accompanied by a 30-minute video of the paperwork, which included checking account particulars, in addition to copies of Indonesian identification playing cards and taxpayer particulars.

“We identified multiple compromised employee computers of BRI Life and Bank Rakyat Indonesia which may have helped the hacker obtain initial access to the company,” Hudson Rock mentioned in a press release.

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