Accellion Hack Prompts Class Action From Washington Residents

Accellion Inc. is to blame for a recent hack of the Washington State Auditor’s Office because it negligently marketed the outdated file transfer system targeted in the cyberattack, according to a new proposed class action filed in California federal court.

The WSAO announced earlier this month that a third party had compromised the personal identifying information of nearly 1.6 million Washington residents by exploiting vulnerabilities in Accellion’s file transfer product services.

Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance product, used by the state agency to host information about unemployment insurance claims, was outdated and nearing its end of life by 2020, according to ...