The breach was first announced on Sunday and later in the week the Royal Bank of New Zealand said a file sharing service provided by California-based Accellion was illegally accessed.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – says Accellion’s FTA (File Transfer Application) file sharing service was involved in a security incident disclosed on Sunday.
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Reserve Bank confirms legacy version of Accellion file sharing software breached
Bank says it was not directly targeted, is responding with urgency
Adrian Orr (Reserve Bank of NZ) Credit: Supplied
Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua governor Adrian Orr says the bank s data breach is contained, but it will take time to determine the impact.
The bank confirmed
Reseller News report yesterday that it used software from California-based Accellion for file sharing and that this was the system breached. The bank said the specific system was called FTA, or file transfer application.