HCL exposed employee passwords, project data: Australian security firm

Upguard says HCL Technologies fixed the error when it notified the Indian IT services company.

HCL Technologies, India's third largest IT services firm, left employee passwords, customer project details, and other sensitive information exposed online, but it fixed the issue when notified, said an Australian cyber security start-up. 

Upguard, in a blog post on its website, on Tuesday said a file containing customer keywords was publicly accessible, as were some pages with personal and business data.

"A dashboard for new hires included records for 364 personnel. The oldest were from 2013, but over two hundred records were from 2019. In fact, 54 of the records were for people who joined on May 6, 2019. The exposed data