FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Unpatched PeopleSoft System Exposes Employee Data

The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on October 5 after a failure to apply a security patch contributed to a breach exposing sensitive information about thousands of employees. FBI cyber chief Brett Leatherman confirmed that the incident resulted from a security failure involving a platform managed by a third-party organization. He said a contractor failed to implement a patch explicitly issued to secure the platform, prompting the bureau to…