Accenture confirms breach after hacker steals 35GB of source code and other data


Accenture has confirmed suffering a cyberattack, days after threat actors started selling an archive allegedly coming from the firm.

“We are aware of this isolated matter, and we have remediated its source. There is no impact to Accenture operations and service delivery,” Accenture said in a statement.

It follows a relatively unknown threat actor called 888 posting a new thread on an underground forum, advertising the sale of an archive seemingly stolen from the global professional services company.

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Source:  TechRadar News


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