AFP
New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday it was responding
with urgency to a “malicious” breach of one of its data systems, a
third-party file sharing service that stored “sensitive
information”.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr said the breach
had been contained and the system was taken offline but it would
take time to determine what information had been accessed.
“We are working closely with domestic and international cyber
security experts and other relevant authorities as part of our
investigation and response to this malicious attack,” Orr said.
“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,” he added.
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“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.”
In its latest report, the government agency CERT (Computer
Emergency Response Team) said cyber attacks had increased 33
percent year-on-year in New Zealand.
The country’s stock exchange was targeted by sustained DDoS
(distributed denial of service) attacks last August, forcing
trading to be halted on four consecutive days.
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