Update: Accenture has questioned the truthfulness of the claims. See their statement below the original post.
Waqas writes:
A hacker is claiming to have extracted contact details of 33,000 current and former employees of the IT giant Accenture in a breach that involves a third-party firm.
A hacker known as “888” has recently leaked a file containing the contact and personal details of 32,828 individuals, whom the hacker claims to be current and former employees of Accenture. Accenture, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a global professional services company specializing in IT services and consulting, operating in more than 120 countries.
On Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the data was posted on the infamous Breach Forums, comprising full names and email addresses.
Read more at HackRead.
Accenture sent DataBreaches the following statement in response to this site’s inquiries:
Reactive media holding statement: We are aware of these claims. We have analyzed the data set published by the threat actor and found only three names and Accenture email addresses, but no other information related to Accenture. There is currently no indication of compromise to Accenture or client systems. We continue to investigate.
This post was updated at 6:40 pm to include Accenture’s statement.