Third-party breach exposes data of 33,000 Accenture staff
SpilloverSpillover from the Santander incident · View original incident →Information on 33,000 Accenture employees was leaked in a third-party breach. A hacker published the information; when the incident occurred and how it was handled have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Accenture
- Original incident
- Santander warns of customer data breach
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information on 33,000 employees
- Cause / method
- Third-party breach
- Location
- Ireland
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Timeline
- It emerged that a hacker had published information on 33,000 Accenture employees.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Santander incident.
Santander warns of customer data breach
Impact: Customer information
Santander warned of a data breach that exposed customer information. The date of the incident, the extent of the damage, the cause of the leak and any further response have not been confirmed.
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Other incidents at Accenture
Accenture confirms breach as attacker claims theft of source code and more
After an attacker claimed to have stolen 35GB of Accenture data including source code and put it up for sale, the company confirmed a breach. Accenture said it had addressed the cause of the breach and that operations and service delivery were not affected. It is unclear whether the scale of theft claimed by the attacker has been verified.
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