Security News > 2021 > October > Accenture confirms data breach after August ransomware attack

Global IT consultancy giant Accenture confirmed that LockBit ransomware operators stole data from its systems during an attack that hit the company's systems in August 2021.

"In the past, we have experienced, and in the future, we may again experience, data security incidents resulting from unauthorized access to our and our service providers' systems and unauthorized acquisition of our data and our clients' data including: inadvertent disclosure, misconfiguration of systems, phishing ransomware or malware attacks," Accenture said.

Sources familiar with the attack also told BleepingComputer that Accenture confirmed the ransomware attack to at least one cyber threat intelligence vendor.

Even though Accenture has now confirmed that the attackers stole information from its systems and leaked it online, the company has not yet publicly acknowledged the data breach or filed data breach notification letters with relevant authorities.

The ransomware attack was widely covered at the time, with the IT giant telling BleepingComputer that all affected systems were fully restored from backups, with no impact on Accenture's operations or its clients' systems.

"We have completed a thorough forensic review of documents on the attacked Accenture systems. This claim is false," Accenture told BleepingComputer, denying that customer credentials were stolen in the August ransomware attack.

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