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Alleged massive Indonesian data leak prompts calls to urgently pass privacy bill

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( May 24, 2021, 07:33 GMT | Insight) -- An alleged breach of Indonesia's social security database has prompted renewed calls for lawmakers to urgently finalize a long-awaited comprehensive personal data-protection law. The government has confirmed that a data sample of about 100,000 entries being sold in hacker forums is identical to information held by the national healthcare and social security agency, and the hacker selling the data claims the sample is part of a total of 279 million records.An alleged breach of Indonesia’s social security database has prompted renewed calls for lawmakers to urgently finalize a long-awaited comprehensive personal data-protection law. ...

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