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dell confirms it has launched an investigation into a suspected breach of employee and partner information

2024-09-24

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it home reported on september 24 that a dell spokesperson confirmed to foreign media bleepingcomputer that the company is aware of the suspected leakage of employee and partner information that has occurred before, and dell's security team is investigating the situation.

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on september 19, local time, the threat actor "grep" claimed on a hacker forum that dell had suffered a "minor" data breach this month.a total of more than 10,800 employees of dell and its partners were affected, the leaked information included the employee's identity id, full name, active or inactive status, and internal id.

it home noticed that "grep" had previously claimed on the 9th of this month that it20gb of data stolen from french it giant and consulting firm capgemini, including capgemini’s source code, credentials, private keys, api keys, employee data, t-mobile virtual machine logs, documents, and more.