The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, is the Central Bank of New Zealand and according to its announcement, suffered a data after hackers a partner that provides hosting services.
The central bank announced the breach, saying that cybercriminals managed to gain access to bank data stored on a third-party hosting provider.
Specifically, the announcement said: “has been illegally accessed service used by the Bank to share and store sensitive information.”
Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orrsaid the necessary actions were taken to contain the breach.
“We are working closely with domestic and international cybersecurity experts and other relevant authorities to investigate and respond to this attack.” The commander also said the nature and extent of the information breach had not been fully determined, but acknowledged that some commercial and personal data may have been exposed.
“The system has been secured and taken offline while we complete our initial investigations. It will take time to understand the full impact of this breach and we are working with system users whose information may have been compromised. Our core operations remain up and running,” Orr said.
At this time, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has not provided further information about the hosting provider that was breached, the country it is based in, or the date the cyberattack occurred . The bank has also not shared any speculation about who is behind the data breach .
However, Dave Parry, a professor of Computer Science at Auckland University, told Radio New Zealand that behind the banking data another government may be
In August, New Zealand was once again in the spotlight, suffering a series of attacks DDoS targeting both private and public organizations. The attacks also affected the New Zealand Stock Exchange, which was forced to halt trading until the situation was addressed.
Source: Bleeping Computer
