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Indian outsourcing company HCL Technologies — formerly known as Hindustan Computers Limited — has exposed personal information of employees, plaintext passwords for new hires reports on installations of customer infrastructure, and web applications for managing personnel on an unprotected domain.

A breach of the networks at India's second largest outsourcing company, Wipro, has been linked to earlier intrusions that occurred in 2017 and 2015.

In the early 2000s, outsourcing became a significant buzzword in software development globally. Every week we seemed to read that one significant player, or another had decided to experiment with the idea of adopting a remote development team in some (often far-flung) location.