Security News > 2024 > March > Acer confirms Philippines employee data leaked on hacking forum
Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was stolen in an attack on a third-party vendor who manages the company's employee attendance data after a threat actor leaked the data on a hacking forum.
Earlier today, a threat actor known as 'ph1ns' published a link to download a stolen database containing Acer employee data for free on a hacking forum.
We reached out to Acer to verify the authenticity of the threat actors' claims, and an Acer spokesperson confirmed that the data is theirs but was not acquired directly from the company's systems.
"We are aware that one of our external vendors in the Philippines has suffered a data breach, and as a result, a limited set of employee data has been compromised," a spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
Acer Philippines later issued a public statement on X offering similar assurances about the security of customer data and confirming that its systems remain uncompromised.
In October 2021, Acer admitted that its India-based after-sales service had been compromised, and millions of records containing customer data were stolen.