https://www.rnz.co.nz/assets/news/34520/eight_col_par_18.jpg?1425262623 The software firm at the centre of a cyber breach won’t be drawn on whether it kept the Reserve Bank in the dark about a fault in its systems. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson The central bank revealed last month a third party file sharing service it uses to store and send sensitive information was hacked. At the time, the US company which operates the software, Accellion, said it discovered a vulnerability in its software in mid-December and notified its customers within 72 hours about a patch to fix the issue. However, the Reserve Bank disputes this. In a statement released yesterday, the bank’s governor Adrian Orr said it took Accellion five days to notify it about the problem, in which time it could have avoided the hack. “We had no warning to avoid the attack which began in mid-December. Accellion failed to notify ...
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