Australia’s financial services watchdog has suffered a cybersecurity breach forcing it to halt credit applications. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) became aware of the incident on Jan. 15 when unauthorised access to a server containing documents related to credit license applications occured. “While the investigation is ongoing, it appears that there is some risk that some limited information may have been viewed by the threat actor,” the regulatory body said in a statement. “At this time ASIC has not seen evidence that any Australian credit licence application forms or any attachments were opened or downloaded,” it continued. ASIC assured the public the server was disabled and no other infrastructure was breached. The incident is related to ASIC’s use of software from California-based software company Accellion. The same software is also used by the New Zealand Reserve Bank, which suffered a cyber attack earlier this month. “We have been advised …