The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has admitted one of its servers was accessed without sanction and may have been digitally pawed by miscreants.
The country's company and financial services regulator became aware of the incident on 15 January, which it said was "related to Accellion software used by ASIC to transfer files and attachments."
The attack involved a server containing documents associated with Australian credit applications and the commission warned that "some limited information may have been viewed by the threat actor." ASIC was at pains to add that it hadn't seen evidence of the forms and attachments being opened or downloaded.
That said, ASIC has still disabled access to the affected server and is working on "alternative arrangements" for the submitting of credit application attachments. The Aussie government ..
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