2020 Hacking Cases Report Down 87.8%, Lowest Since 2017

Reports of electronic hacking to the Directorate of Cyber Crimes (Dittipidsiber) decreased in 2020. Only 18 cases of electronic hacking were reported in 2020.

This represents an 87.8% decrease from 2019, which saw 148 reports. This is also the lowest number of reported electronic hacking cases since 2017.

Thirty-five cases of electronic hacking were reported in 2017. This increased by 22.9% to 43 in 2018. Then, in 2019, there was a significant increase of 244.2%, reaching 148 cases.

Dittipidsiber is a working unit under the Indonesian National Police's Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim Polri). This unit is responsible for law enforcement related to cybercrime. Generally, Dittipidsiber handles two groups of crimes: computer crime and computer-related crime. Computer crime is a group of cybercrimes that use computers as the primary tool.

Examples include hacking, illegal interception, and web defacement. Further examples are system interference and data manipulation.

Computer-related crime, on the other hand, uses computers as an aid. Examples include online pornography, online gambling, online defamation, online extortion, online fraud, hate speech, online threats, illegal access, and data theft.