Security News > 2021 > February > Accellion to Retire File Transfer Service Targeted in Attacks
Accellion has formally announced plans to retire FTA, the large file transfer service that was at the heart of several recently disclosed data breaches.
FTA runs on CentOS 6, an operating system that reached end-of-life on November 30, 2020, a matter that Accellion brought to the attention of FTA customers six months ago.
Despite efforts to completely move away from FTA Accellion still had approximately 50 customers using the product back in December 2020, when a critical vulnerability was identified in it.
On December 23, the company said, FTA customers were alerted of a sophisticated cyber-attack targeting the file sharing service.
Accellion has been long touting the more robust security capabilities of the kiteworks platform, asking customers to migrate to it and leave FTA aside.
"We have encouraged all FTA customers to migrate to kiteworks for the last three years and have accelerated our FTA end-of-life plans in light of these attacks. We remain committed to assisting our FTA customers, but strongly urge them to migrate to kiteworks as soon as possible," Frank Balonis, Accellion's chief information security officer, commented.