Wipro says network faced advanced cyberattack, few customers ‘impacted’

Information technology services firm Wipro on Tuesday said it had hired a forensic firm to investigate a cybersecurity attack on its systems, which impacted a “handful” of customers through an advanced phishing attack.

KrebsOnSecurity, a website run by independent journalist Brian Krebs, reported on Monday hackers had compromised the Bengaluru-based IT company’s systems and used them to launch attacks on the firm’s clients over a period of several months.

Wipro said it “detected a potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign,” but denied that the attack was going on for months. “We have informed the handful of customers impacted,” Chief Operating Officer BM Bhanumurthy said at a press conference on Tuesday after the fir reported fourth quarter results.