The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua is responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems. A third party file sharing service.
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.
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.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
THE Reserve Bank of New Zealand said it’s investigating an illegal breach of a third-party file sharing service used to share and store some sensitive information.
While the breach has been contained, the nature and extent of the information that potentially had been accessed is being determined and may have included some commercially and personally sensitive data, Governor Adrian Orr said in a statement Sunday. The system has been secured and taken offline until we have completed our initial investigations, ” he said. 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. Our core functions remain sound and operational.”