MyPertamina 2022 Data Breach
Energy / Fuel Retail & Payments App / Consumer
MyPertamina 2022 Data Breach: 6 Million Customer Records Exposed via Bjorka
Digital fuel-payment and loyalty service of Indonesian state energy firm Pertamina.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
72/100
Lower riskHigher risk
High and current: recent, valuable data circulating on the dark web now.
Data Sensitivity i
ElevatedExposed data raises the risk of fraud, targeting, and impersonation. Proactive steps are warranted.
5.9MRecords
2022Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
In November 2022 the actor Bjorka circulated a MyPertamina dataset affecting about 5.9 million people, including names, dates of birth, gender, national government IDs, income information, phone numbers and physical addresses.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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5.9M records analyzed
About MyPertamina
MyPertamina is the digital fuel-payment and loyalty application operated by Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company, used by consumers for subsidized-fuel purchases and rewards.
Why They Hold Your Data
A fuel-payment and loyalty app holds customer identity and contact data, national identifiers, income indicators and transaction/loyalty records tied to subsidized-fuel eligibility.
Recent Developments
The data surfaced in November 2022 via the hacktivist actor Bjorka amid a series of high-profile Indonesian data leaks.
Data Points Exposed
7 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Gender
Phone Number
Physical address High
Transaction History
Breach Impact
The leak added to a wave of Indonesian government and state-enterprise breaches attributed to Bjorka, drawing national scrutiny of public-sector data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Freeze credit at all three bureaus and monitor for new-account and tax-refund fraud.
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: BjorkaConfidence: Medium
Motivation: Hacktivism, notoriety
An Indonesia-focused hacktivist handle prominent since 2022 (activity traced to ~2020) behind numerous leaks of Indonesian government and telecom data, including SIM-registration, KPU election, police and state-enterprise datasets.
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