Accenture confirms breach after hacker steals 35GB of source code and other data
- Accenture confirms cyberattack after threat actor “888” advertised selling 35GB of stolen source code and keys from its Azure DevOps repos
- Hacker claims archive includes RSA/SSH keys, Azure PATs, storage access keys, and configs, though details remain unverified
- Accenture says the breach was remediated with no operational impact; the same actor previously tried selling Accenture employee data after a 2024 third‑party breach
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 toBleepingComputer.
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.
Accenture breach
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