Security News > 2021 > January > New Zealand Central Bank Says Accellion Service at Heart of Cyberattack
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua - says Accellion's FTA file sharing service was involved in a security incident disclosed on Sunday.
The malicious incident, the bank said, involved a service that stored commercially and personally sensitive information, but could not provide specific details on the type of data that might have been accessed.
On Monday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand revealed that it uses Accellion's FTA service for the sharing of information with external stakeholders.
The incident, the bank said, was contained, the system taken offline, and an investigation launched into the matter.
"While Accellion maintains tight security standards for its legacy FTA product, we strongly encourage our customers to update to kiteworks, the modern enterprise content firewall platform,for the highest level of security and confidence," the company said.
The Reserve Bank noted that Accellion informed them that the disclosed security incident did not appear to target the bank specifically, and that other customers of the FTA file sharing service were affected as well.