LATEST: Cyber attacks against banks, MetService - experts see lockdown linkKiwibank, ANZ, NZ Post and MetService. While a DDoS attack (now confirmed by Crown agency CERT NZ) is extremely annoying, and has business costs, your data is not at risk. Daniel Ayers, a cyber security expert, told the Herald on Monday he believed Kiwibank had been subject to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack. Ayers said history showed from last year's NZX cyber attack that a DDoS attack can take out organisations other than the ones that are targetted as it could overload the provider's capacity. Ayers said a DDoS attack was not a fraud threat in terms of someone stealing people's money.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 07, 2021 22:52 UTC