IT Services Giant HCL: Latest Organization that Inadvertently Leaks Sensitive Data
IT Services Giant HCL: Latest Organization that Inadvertently Leaks Sensitive Data IT services giant HCL Technologies, an $8 billion company that operates in 44 countries and has more than 100,000 employees, is the latest organization found to have inadvertently exposed its sensitive data online. UpGuardrecently revealed that a member of its Data Breach Research team discovered on May 1, 2019 publicly accessible information belonging to information technology services provider HCL. According to UpGuard, members of its research team didn’t specifically search for HCL data leak, but the data leak discovery was an offshoot of a keyword-based and datacentric online search to check exposures of sensitive information belonging to UpGuard’s customers. Due to the nature of the data exposure, UpGuard said it took several days to determine the extent of the…
