After what appears to be a brief hiatus from public activity, DESORDEN GROUP is back and has listed a stock brokerage firm, UOB KayHian, as a victim. According to a statement by DESORDEN to DataBreaches, the firm was attacked in October, and although the firm has read DESORDEN’s communications to them, they have not replied at all. DESORDEN’s post on a popular hacking forum claims that this breach involved 159,807 records of UOB Kay Hian Malaysia customers, including their full name, gender, religion, birthdate, nationality, IC number, passport, email, phone number, and address. Other data include their dealers, back office users, etc.  DESORDEN claims they neither attempted to lock nor delete any of the firm’s files but focused on extracting data quickly. DataBreaches reached out to UOB KayHian to alert them that despite allegedly being notified of the breach by DESORDEN, UOB KayHian may still need to lock down all their data or change all their passwords. One file acquired by DESORDEN appears to contain first and last names, usernames, passwords, email addresses, and other information that might still permit access or successful phishing attempts. DataBreaches did ask UOB KayHian what they have done or are doing in response to this claimed breach, but no reply was immediately available. On October 18, the firm did post a notice on its website, Notice – UTRADE Security Advisory on Safeguarding Digital Privacy *NEW*.  Was that in response to the breach? DataBreaches does not know. Nor does this site know whether UOB sent a copy of that notice to all customers or if it would do any good if they hadn’t also told them there had already been a breach. Hopefully, UOB KayHian will respond to this site’s inquiries and clarify these issues.

Hackers known as DESORDEN have hit another big Indonesian business. This time, their victim was BOGA Group, which operates more than 200 restaurants and outlets across Indonesia and Malaysia under brand names including Bakerzin, Pepper Lunch, Paradise Dynasty, Paradise Inn, Shaburi, Kintan Buffet, Onokabe, Putu Made, Kimukatsu, Yakiniku Like, Ocean 8, Sushi Kaiyo, and Boga Kitchen. Boga Group also operates Boga Catering, a premium catering service. More than 400,000 customer records and 16,000 employee records were acquired by the hackers.     As is their usual style, DESORDEN provided proof in the form of samples drawn from the corporation’s .csv files.  They also created a recording showing directories, opened files, documents and spreadsheets. The recording includes a message to their target: The highlighted portion of the recording reads: “To prove that DESORDEN has breached your servers, we have deleted the databases from your server after downloading them. In total, we have stolen over 31 GB of data and files from your network of servers. Check the facts with your IT department. These data include 409,168 information of your customers, with their name, phone, and email as well as 16,476 employees data, financial, and corporate data.” The numbers correspond to the rows displayed in the .csv files shown in the recording. When asked about the deletion of databases mentioned in their recording, DESORDEN replied, “They have backups. Delete is only for them to know we breached.” DataBreaches sent an email inquiry to BOGA Group about the attack. No reply has been received. In discussing this attack with DESORDEN in an online chat, DataBreaches pointed them to an article from The Jakarta Post about all the leaks and breaches appearing online.  DESORDEN commented that the report did make a point. They say it is easy to go after smaller companies in Indonesia because most small companies have little or no security (an observation that applies to small companies worldwide). But DESORDEN also notes that these countries often have weak or no regulations imposing security standards or requiring notification in the event of breaches. “Countries like India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand. We do not really expect responses from them. Informing them is only for courtesy,” DESORDEN told DataBreaches. “Selling their data is also as profitable. While it doesn’t fetch as much as victim paying, but a single job data can profit as much as $20,000 USD in sales of data easily.” DESORDEN has also recently been telling DataBreaches to expect more breaches in South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan and continuing interest in data from Thailand.  The current market is looking for personal information from these countries, DESORDEN states, from “mostly Chinese buyers.”