Breaches and incidents
Tata Consultancy Services (India): threat-intel alerts of employee data exposure, attacker claims password spray and MFA fatigue
TCS told the exchanges it received threat-intelligence alerts alleging exposure of employee information.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- TCS told the exchanges it received threat-intelligence alerts alleging exposure of employee information; it found no credible evidence of a breach of TCS systems or customer environments and said the data appears over four years old and limited to basic employee details.
- Root cause: attacker claims password spraying and MFA fatigue; TCS says it has had safeguards against these for over two years.
- Attacker: not named in the filing.
- Response: continued monitoring and assessment.