Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform says it’s investigating a possible data breach in which hackers claim to have stolen data about 91 million customers. Tokopedia, which is backed by $2 billion in funding from investors including SoftBank and Alibaba, told Reuters Saturday it was investigating an alleged theft of user data, though it maintained that user passwords were still encrypted. Indonesia’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Johnny G. Plate, on Sunday urged Tokopedia to “immediately improve its security system to prevent a further breach in data.” The government also has summoned the board of directors to clarify the current state of the investigation in a meeting Monday. The statement followed a series of tweets from Under the Breach, a data breach monitoring service, including screenshots, apparently from a vendor on a cybercriminal forum, advertising 15 million names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The same account then marketed 91 million records […]
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