Data of 1 Million Bandung Residents Leaked by Hacker

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Suspicions of another data leak have surfaced in Indonesia. This time, the Bandung population database has reportedly been breached and circulated online, affecting more than one million individual records. The information was revealed by Vecert Analyzer via their account on platform X on 26 March 2026. In their post, they stated they had detected a large-scale database exfiltration believed to originate from official population records. Vecert Analyzer indicated that the threat actor using the name “Petrusnism” had publicly released the data. The database is claimed to contain detailed personal information of more than one million residents. “We detected a major data leak impacting the City of Bandung, Indonesia. The threat actor named ‘petrusnism’ released a database containing detailed personal information of over one million residents, believed to have been taken from official population records,” wrote the @VECERTRadar account, as quoted by CNBC Indonesia on Tuesday (7/4/2026). The breach is said to have occurred in March 2026 and is likely a recent incident. The volume of leaked data amounts to more than 1,000,000 rows or individual records. Regarding this report, citing detikJabar, the Head of the Population and Civil Registration Office (Disdukcapil) of Bandung City, Tatang Muhtar, admitted he would first investigate the information. “Please investigate it first, thank you for the info,” he said.