HC3 TLP White Analyst Note: Accellion File Transfer Appliance Compromise

February 23, 20221

Accellion, a managed service provider focused on collaboration and secure file sharing, was recently compromised in an attack which has impacted their customers. It is believed that up to 100 of their customers were part of a secondary attack and up to 25 of those had a significant amount of their data stolen. The root cause of the breach was the exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in their legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA).  View the entire report under Key Resources.