Indonesian authorities have recently reported that their application for tracing close contacts of COVID-19 positive cases, called eHAC, has suffered a data leak. At least one million people could have their personal data exposed.
This application was developed to help detect infections of the dangerous virus, It was produced by vpnMentor, which admitted last Monday that the data includes contact information, identifying data, and COVID test results.
Quickly, authorities have reported that they have disconnected this initial system, eHAC, to replace it with a new tracing application, PeduliLindungi. El gobierno insta a la ciudadanía a desinstalar cuanto antes eHAC, que ahora es una aplicación independiente.
In the same statement, las autoridades admiten que la falla de seguridad ha ocurrido en un sistema de un tercero que ha podido ser identificado tras una auditoría digital, sin añadir más detalles.
El proveedor, al conocer la filtración, ha desconectado el servidor e informa que la gran cantidad de datos filtrados expone a la población a una gran variedad de posibles ciberataques, incluyendo estafas y Phishing.
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