NSW Health Confirms Data Breach due to Accellion Flaws

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7. June 2021

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NSW Health is the latest Australian government agency to confirm it has been affected by a security vulnerability in the Accellion File Transfer System, according to ZDNet.

New South Wales Health has announced it has been affected by a cyberattack affecting Accellion’s file transfer technology. According to the government institution, the system was being used to share and store files by organizations around the world, including NSW Health, on Friday afternoon.

NSW Health said in a statement that “Following the NSW government’s advice earlier this year around a worldwide cyber attack that included NSW government agencies, NSW Health is notifying people whose data may have been accessed in the global Accellion cyber attack”.

According to the state institution, medical records in public hospitals were not affected and the software in ques…