By Ben Otto
JAKARTA--Indonesia's Bakrie Group Wednesday said it had filed a
police report saying its companies' email accounts and telephones
had been hacked in a series of recent security attacks.
Christopher Fong, the company's senior vice president, told Dow
Jones Newswires that the company had filed a report with the
National Police's Cyber Crimes Unit.
"We've also notified police of some of the names we suspect are
behind this," he said, adding that the hacking had been going on
for "days, if not weeks."
Officials from the National Police and the Cyber Crimes Unit
were not immediately available for comment.
The announcement comes just as the board of directors of
London-listed Bumi PLC, a major shareholder in the
Bakrie-controlled coal miner PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI.JK),
prepares to meet Thursday in Singapore. The meeting will be the
board's first since announcing a probe into what it calls financial
and other irregularities at Bumi Resources.
An official at Bumi Resources, Indonesia's largest coal miner,
declined to comment on reports of hacking.
Write to Ben Otto at ben.otto@dowjones.com
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