Indonesia’s Civil Aviation Data Breached? Hacker Claims Access to Employees, Flight Data
Indonesia’s civil aviation authority has alleged suffered a massive security breach where a threat actor has claimed to have accessed critical data related to handling of air traffic in the country. The Indonesian civil aviation data breached was allegedly orchestrated by a threat actor, operating under the alias, “Hacker Mail”.
The threat actor has alleged exfiltrated more than 3GB of database which includes all employees and passwords for all applications, website user data, ID card photo data for all employees, drone pilot certificate participants, and flight data related to aircraft, pilot’s personal data, as well as all other activities in Indonesian airports.
Decoding Indonesian Civil Aviation Data Breach
The threat actor’s post on hacking site Breachforums, stated that the exfiltration of data occurred on June 27,2024. In his post, the hacker stated, “The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is an element that implements some of the duties and functions of the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation, which is under and responsible to the Minister of Transportation. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is led by the Director General. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has the task of formulating and implementing policies and technical standardization in the field of air transportation. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation handles the administration and management of civil aviation within the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia.” To substantiate the data breach claim, the threat actor attached the following sample records.- User log for small, unmanned aircraft certificates, remote pilot certificate and unmanned aircraft operation approval.
- Sample chats which probably refer to communication of DGCA employees with pilots on 04/13/2022
- ID card photo data for all employees
- Userrname and password of employees who logged on to a DGCA application