Accenture Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers Stolen Source Code for Sale

Accenture has confirmed a security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and offered for sale 35 GB of the company’s source code and other data. Accenture is a major global IT services and consulting firm, so exposure of its source code carries potential downstream risk for the many clients that rely on its software. Details on the intrusion vector and the full scope of affected data have not been disclosed.