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Forbes Global 2000 Firm Leaked Plain Text Passwords and Data

Hindustan Computers Limited exposed a huge trove of employee and business information via publicly accessible pages and web interfaces hosted on multiple subdomains. The exposed data included personal information and plaintext passwords for new hires, reports on installations of customer infrastructure, and web applications for managing personnel. HCL is an Indian company in the Forbes Global 2000 list with over 200 Fortune 500 customers and more than 600 from the Forbes list, as well as operations across 40 countries, covering a large array of industries from IT services, banking, and automotive to telecom, capital markets and media.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/forbes-global-2000-firm-leaked-plain-text-passwords-and-data/

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