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.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Accenture
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Ireland
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Timeline
- Accenture confirmed the breach and said it had addressed the cause, following the attacker's claim of stealing and selling 35GB of data.
- It emerged that Accenture had disputed the attacker's claim of data theft.
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