Accenture has confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack. CNBC first broke the news about the attack with a hacker group using the LockBit ransomware reportedly threatening to release the company’s data and sell insider information.
Accenture confirmed the ransomware attack, but said there was no impact on the company and that it has fully restored certain affected systems.
“Through our security controls and protocols, we identified irregular activity in one of our environments. We immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers. We fully restored our affected servers from back up. There was no impact on Accenture’s operations, or on our clients’ systems,” Accenture wrote.
The attacker used LockBit to attack the global consulting firm. LockBit is a strain of ransomware that prevents users from accessing infected systems until a ransom payment is made.
Accenture has been actively acquiring security companies since it found in 2017 that Accenture AWS S3 storage buckets were left unsecured on servers that were configured for public access and were publicly downloadable. Accenture provides management and technology consulting services to clients including e-commerce giant Alibaba, Cisco and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
