NSW Health is the latest Australian government entity to confirm being impacted by a vulnerability in the Accellion file transfer system.
New South Wales Health has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack involving the file transfer system owned by Accellion. The system was widely used to share and store files by organisations around the world, including NSW Health, the government entity said on Friday afternoon. “Following the NSW government’s advice earlier this year around a world-wide cyber attack that included NSW government agencies, NSW Health is notifying people whose data may have been accessed in the global Accellion cyber attack,” it said in a statement. The state entity said medical records in public hospitals were not affected and the software involved is no longer in use by NSW Health.
