{"id":1041581,"date":"2026-10-07T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041581"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:22:06","slug":"accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-after-data-leak-that-exposed-personal-details-of-thousands-of-bureau-employees-comes-weeks-after-googles-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/accenture-contractor-removed-from-fbi-after-data-leak-that-exposed-personal-details-of-thousands-of-bureau-employees-comes-weeks-after-googles-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture contractor removed from FBI after data leak that exposed personal details of thousands of bureau employees, comes weeks after Google&#8217;s &#8216;warning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor after a data breach exposed sensitive personal information of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The contractor was removed on Monday, October 5 after the FBI found that a security patch had not been properly installed on a platform managed by a third party. As per the report, the FBI breach comes weeks after Google warned about a hacking and extortion campaign linked to ShinyHunters targeting organisations that use PeopleSoft software.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is still assessing the full impact of the breach, which exposed sensitive information including details of employees\u2019 counterintelligence work, addresses of human intelligence operatives, and medical and psychiatric records, the report stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor after a data breach exposed sensitive personal information of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The contractor was removed on Monday, October 5 after the FBI found that a security patch had not been properly installed on a platform managed by a third party. As per the report, the FBI breach comes weeks after Google warned about a hacking and extortion campaign linked to ShinyHunters targeting organisations that use PeopleSoft software. The FBI is still assessing the full impact of the breach, which exposed sensitive information including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041581","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041582,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041581\/revisions\/1041582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}