Cybersecurity incident — 2021-08-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Accenture
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Hosts,Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Servers
Motive: Financial
Actor: LockBit 2.0
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Accenture suffers a ransomware attack that appears to stem from a compromised employee computer, hackers claim to have stolen 6TB of data.