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Vendor (Compucom) employees snoop internal Walmart emails

2019 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Email addresses, Employee data, Messages, Internal documents

Technical writeup

Compucom employees investigated for accessing internal Walmart emails without authorization (late 2015–early 2016) to gain edge on contract bids. Discovered when photo of internal message was mistakenly forwarded.

Root cause

Third-party vendor unauthorized access.

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