At the moment, it is unclear who is behind the cyber attack and whether it resulted in a data breach.
On Wednesday, September 8, a cyberattack temporarily disrupted the work of ANZ, New Zealand’s largest bank, and a number of other financial institutions, as well as the country’s national postal service.
“CERT NZ has been informed of a DDoS attack on a number of New Zealand organizations. We are monitoring the situation and working with affected parties where possible, ” said New Zealand’s Computer Incident Response Team.
According to ANZ on Twitter, the cyberattack caused some services to stop working, in particular online banking and the goMoney app.
Kia ora everyone
We're experiencing an outage with our Internet Banking and goMoney app at the moment, we're really sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause!
Our tech teams 🛠 are working hard to get things fixed asap!— ANZ New Zealand (@ANZ_NZ) September 7, 2021
The problem also affected the state-owned bank Kiwibank, which said it was working to restore access to its application, Internet banking, telephone banking and website.
Apologies for the inconvenience while we work to fix intermittent access to our App, Internet Banking, Phone Banking, and Website. Our Contact Centre is experiencing high call volumes. Please consider this if calling. Thanks again for your patience while we work through this. 💚
— Kiwibank (@KiwibankNZ) September 7, 2021
At the moment, it is unclear who is behind the cyber attack and whether it resulted in a data breach.
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