Accellion Sued After Hack Exposes 1.6M Washington State Residents' Data

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February 19, 2021
Madalyn Brown sued cloud file-sharing company Accellion, Inc. after it reportedly experienced a breach that exposed information such as birthdates, addresses, and social security numbers of one of the Washington State Auditor’s Office (SAO) resident databases. Wednesday’s class action complaint alleged that Accellion knew its file transfer appliance (FTA) was “nearing end-of-life,” but continued to employ it nonetheless, allowing hackers to exploit a vulnerability therein.
The complaint explained that Accellion is a Palo Alto, California-based software company that specializes in cloud-based file sharing. Accellion allegedly developed, marketed, and sold its FTA for file-sharing convenience and to circumvent limits imposed on the size of email attachments.

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