Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: QIMR Berghofer
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: FIN11
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute disclosed a data breach caused by a vulnerability in the Accellion FTA secure file transfer software. According to the research institute, the data breach appears to have occurred on December 25, 2020, when threat actors accessed approximately 4 percent, or 620MB, of data stored on the Accellion FTA service.