{"id":1041118,"date":"2026-10-06T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041118"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:11:01","slug":"accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-following-damaging-data-breach-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-following-damaging-data-breach-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture contractor removed from FBI following damaging data breach, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Reuters, a senior FBI official confirmed that an unidentified contractor had failed to properly update &#8211; or patch &#8211; the system they were responsible for. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure of a platform managed by a third-party organization &#8211; after a contractor failed to implement a security patch explicitly issued to secure the platform,&#8221; FBI cyber chief Brett Leatherman said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. In a statement to Reuters, a senior FBI official confirmed that an unidentified contractor had failed to properly update &#8211; or patch &#8211; the system they were responsible for. &#8220;To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure of a platform managed by a third-party organization &#8211; after a contractor failed to implement a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041119,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041118\/revisions\/1041119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}