A software patch from vendor Accellion was released on December 24 in the US, according to a new report, leaving the hacked Reserve Bank of New Zealand little or no time to implement the fix.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which revealed a breach of sensitive data yesterday, acknowledged a series of cyber security shortcomings in a consultation document last year.
The origins of the 2019 Budget "hack" appear go back to failures in Treasury's website procurement starting in 2014 that led to a "rushed, sub-optimal solution", a report released today found.
The United States has charged four Chinese military hackers in the 2017 breach of the Equifax credit reporting agency that affected nearly 150 million people.
Details of Budget documents posted by Treasury were able to be exposed through web searches, the agency has confessed, and Police have called off their hacking enquiry.
