Security News > 2021 > February > Singtel, QIMR Berghofer report Accellion-related data breaches
Singtel and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute are the latest companies to disclose data breaches caused by a vulnerability in the Accellion FTA secure file transfer software.
As Accellion FTA service is used by numerous government agencies, educational institutions, and companies, we have begun to see a wide-scale impact as companies report related data breaches.
The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has also announced today a data breach caused by the Accellion FTA service and has provided more detailed information regarding what information was accessed.
According to the research institute, the data breach appears to have occurred on December 25, 2020, when threat actors accessed approximately 4 percent, or 620MB, of data stored on the Accellion FTA service.
"Accellion notified QIMR Berghofer on Tuesday 2 February 2021 that it believed the Institute had been affected by the data breach, which has also affected a number of Accellion's other Australian and international clients," QIMR Berghofer disclosed in a data breach notice on their website.
"We are contacting our clinical trial partners and other stakeholders to let them know what has happened and what we are doing to address this likely data breach," explains QIMR Berghofer.