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.