Reserve Bank of New Zealand
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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua said this afternoon it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems.
In a statement, the bank said a third party file sharing service it used to share and store some sensitive information had been hacked.
Professor of Computer Science at Auckland University, Dave Parry, said the attack was significant.
It was likely to be another government trying to attack the Reserve Bank, he said. Because ultimately if you were coming from a sort of like criminal perspective, the government agencies aren t going to pay your ransom or whatever, so you d be more interested probably coming in from a government to government level.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Breached by Hackers
10 Jan 2021
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information.
A third-party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to share and store sensitive information had been illegally accessed, the Wellington-based bank said in a statement.
Governor Adrian Orr said the breach has been contained. The bank’s core functions “remain sound and operational,” he said.
“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,” Orr said.