New Zealand’s central bank has announced that it was responding with urgency to a “malicious” breach of one of its data systems. It says the system is a third-party file sharing service that stored “sensitive information”.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s governor, Adrian Orr, says the breach has been contained. He also says that the system is now offline. However, he says it would take some time to determine what information had gained access to. The attacker is believed to have potential access to commercially and personally sensitive information.
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“We are working closely with domestic and international cybersecurity experts and other relevant authorities as part of our investigation and response to this malicious attack. The nature and extent of information that has been potentially accessed is still being determined, but it may include some commercially and personally sensitive information. It will take time to understand the full implications of this breach, and we are working with system users whose information may have been accessed,” Orr said.
New Zealand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says cyberattacks have increased by 33 percent year-on-year in the county. The New Zealand stock exchange was a target of sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in August 2020. The attacks stopped stock market trading for four consecutive days.
It’s still unclear when the breach and who is responsible for the attacks.
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