Deloitte Suffers Catastrophic Data Breach

Another day, another cyber attack. Only last week we learned about the Equifax security breach. Now it’s Deloitte Touche, which is incidentally one among the ‘big four accounting firms‘, that has fallen prey to hacking. The accounting firm, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, has become the latest subject of a cyber security attack which has supposedly compromised 5 million emails. Emails which Deloitte Touche had stored on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.

According to a report from Guardian, the British daily newspaper, the security breach had been kept under wraps by the Deloitte Touche administrators since it was discovered in March. And it seems that the hackers were specifically targeting some major...