MyPertamina data breach: 6.0M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-01-27
In November 2022, the Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina suffered a data breach of their MyPertamina service. The incident exposed 44M records with 6M unique email addresses along with names, dates of birth, genders, physical addresses and purchases. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Nov 1, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 27, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a MyPertamina account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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