Reserve Bank of New Zealand Reserve Bank of New Zealand

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2021: Theft of data as a result of the hacker attack

In the middle of January, 2021 the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the central bank of the country was cracked. It is supposed that hackers stole commercial and personal confidential information.

News about cracking was published on Sunday January 10. According to employees, hackers cracked the third-party service of file sharing used by bank for exchange and storage of confidential information. Cracking did not affect the main servers of bank which remain "reliable and operable".

Hackers cracked the Central Bank of New Zealand

We closely cooperate with national and international experts in cyber security and other state agencies within our investigation and response to this malicious attack, said in the statement of the head of RBNZ Adrian Orr. - All of us still try to specify character and information volume to which hackers, perhaps, got access, but these data can include commercial and personal confidential information.

Officials of bank emphasize that an affected system was already secured and disconnected before completion of investigation which will demand time. Though the bank does not disclose a detail about a form of cyber attack and of the one who stood behind it, there were already assumptions that hackers could act on behalf of the foreign government. In particular, professor of information science of University of Auckland Dave Parri (professor of information science of University of Auckland) told Radio New Zealand that behind leak of banking data there is probably other state. However it is not clear what country could crack a banking system of New Zealand which keeps at from trade wars.

Cracking of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand happened soon after cyber attack to the New Zealand stock exchange on the "failure in service" type as a result of which the exchange for some time stopped biddings.^[1]

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