#7: Accenture Ransomware Attack

More nefarious cybersecurity activities land at No. 7.

Accenture received a fair amount of praise in the industry for preventing damage from a ransomware attack launched on it by malicious hackers from the LockBit gang.

“Through our security controls and protocols, we identified irregular activity in one of our environments” said Accenture spokesperson Stacey Jones. “We immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers. We fully restored our affected systems from backup. There was no impact on Accenture’s operations, or on our clients’ systems.”

But one commenter to the Channel Futures website wasn’t having it.

Successfully fight off? … The fact that ransomware was able to spread in their environment to a degree where they needed to restore data is a major failure for Accenture and a win for the attackers,” someone wrote anonymously. “I don’t know how Accenture can state that there was no impact to the operations. Anyone involved in the cybersecurity market today knows that prematurely calling that none of your systems, data and customer data were affected at this stage is a suicide. Attackers are claiming they have 6TB+ of Accenture’s data. Whether that’s true or not, this should be a wake-up call for Accenture and all of their customers today.”