Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) along with the police of New South Wales (NSW) has started a probe and are busy finding any cyber repercussions in using the Accellion fill transfer software that was impacted in a cyber attack last year.
In connection with the SolarWinds software, the Accellion software came under the watchful radar of many Cybersecurity agencies around the world when it was discovered that the two decades long company was cyber attacked through vulnerability by hackers suspected to be from Russia.
Early January 2021, Accellion issued a warning to all its customers that its file transfer software capabilities could have been compromised through a PO Vulnerability that existed in its legacy file transfer appliance before January 18th, 2021.
And the highlight is that the cyber attack drama came into light after Kaspersky reported that the hackers who exploited the vulnerability of Accellion could be the ones behind the Solorigate incident.
As NSW uses Accellion to transfer data related to child abuse, there is a scope that such data could have been compromised in the incident, like the one witnessed in the incident of ASICs aka Australian Securities and Investments Commission and Allen Law firm.
So, SBS has been asked to dig down the facts through a detailed probe on the number of impacted customers of Accellion.
The Royal Australian Mint that also uses Accellion software has denied affected by the breach.
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January 28, 2021 at 02:03PM
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