Wipro customers hacked, says Krebs. Nothing to see here, says Wipro.

Wipro PR go slow—oh no

IT outsourcing outfit Wipro is under fire this week. Sources say it got hacked months ago, and since then has been used as a jumping-off point to hack its customers. Possibly by a state actor.

If that weren’t bad enough, when Brian Krebs—the journalist who reported the hack—asked the Bengaluru firm about it, his questions were ignored. When Wipro PR finally made a buzzword-bingo statement, it was only sent to Indian media.

And then Wipro executives contradicted the statement. Said execs went on to publicly badmouth the reporter.

This is a terrible example of how to act on a breach report. In this week’s Security Blogwatch, we break out the popcorn.


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