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Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy says her office was not notified about a vulnerability in Accellion s file transfer product.
A data breach of a Washington state auditor s system exposed 1.4 million unemployment claimants’ records. The breach involved exploiting a flaw in Accellion s file transfer product, called File Transfer Appliance, and the state’s auditor says the office was never notified of the vulnerability and that a fix was available, the Seattle Times reports.
Organizations in New Zealand and Australia have also been affected by breaches tied to exploits of the vulnerability. But Accellion says it issued a patch in December 2020 and alerted all affected customers.