This is potentially much worse than Equifax. I'm not sure why it's not being covered more heavily.
There are many major companies in Accenture's client portfolio that this would expose, including health-care companies.
There are many major companies in Accenture's client portfolio that this would expose, including health-care companies.
1) The story only just broke.
2) No actual breach seems to of occurred: We asked if anyone else had accessed the servers, the spokesperson said its logs showed access "by only a single non-authorized IP address which we traced back to a data security consultant who contacted us about about two weeks ago," referring to Vickery.
I might be wrong about this, but my understanding is that a decent black-hat hacker wouldn't have left many (if any) breadcrumbs because he had "the keys to the kingdom". It would be easy to erase change logs on the way out.
I might be cynical but Accenture is a big advertiser and main stream news sites generally don't want to piss off their source of income.
Also, there are so many sites now that Accenture couldn't be advertising on all of them, at least not significantly.