We have completed our assessment of the files illegally downloaded during the breach and are notifying the organizations whose files contained sensitive information to support them and assist in managing the impact on their customers and staff, says Adrian Orr, the reserve bank s governor.
The Reserve Bank s investigation found that files removed from the bank s systems exposed data that included personal email addresses, dates of birth and credit information, Orr says.
The bank has brought in KPMG to conduct an additional independent review of its systems and processes. Our core functions remain unaffected, sound and operational, Orr notes.
Accellion s FTA Breached
Singtel is among the latest victims of a breach tied to Accellion s File Transfer Appliance.
Two more breaches have been tied to the vulnerable 20-year-old Accellion File Transfer Appliance. The latest victims are Singapore telecom company Singtel and Australian medical research institute QIMR Berghofer.
Singtel reports that it s working closely with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore after a breach of its Accellion FTA system, which it uses to share information internally and externally.
In a blog post on Thursday, Singtel said it was informed by Accellion that FTA had been attacked by unidentified hackers. We are currently conducting an impact assessment with the utmost urgency to ascertain the nature and extent of data that has been potentially accessed. Customer information may have been compromised, Singtel says.
By Ry Crozier on Feb 11, 2021 1:52PM
Working to establish files accessed.
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Singtel are the latest large organisations to fall victim to the Accellion data breach.
QIMR Berghofer said in a statement that about 4 percent of data held on the file-sharing system - or 620MB in total - appeared to have been accessed by an unknown party on Christmas Day.
It used Accellion “to receive and share data from clinical trials of anti-malarial drugs” though it said no personally-identifiable information was in the documents on the system.
“These clinical trials are conducted with healthy volunteers,” QIMR Berghofer said.