New Zealand’s central bank announced today, that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information, according to Associated Press report.
Governor Adrian Orr explained that the breach has been contained. The bank’s core functions remain sound and operational. “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
Several major organizations in New Zealand have been the target of cyber interference in the past year, including the New Zealand Stock Exchange, which had its servers knocked out of public view for nearly a week in August. On other hand, Dave Parry the computer science professor at Auckland University, told Radio New Zealand that another government was likely behind the bank data breach.
“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,” Parry said.
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