TCS laptop monitoring tool: Reports of employee surveillance

Tata Consultancy Services (

), a major global IT and consulting company, clarifies that reports regarding surveillance of employees are baseless and inaccurate. It further stated in the statement that the company does not track individual employee activity on laptops & respects their privacy, while its tools are used only to monitor network performance, security and availability at a macro level. Earlier, Tata Consultancy Services received alerts ‌alleging the possible exposure of certain employee-related ⁠data, India’s largest IT firm said on Monday (August 10), adding that ‌there was no indication that customer ‌data or systems have ‌been ⁠impacted. The information referenced appears to be more than four years old and limited to basic employee information. There is no indication that customer data, customer systems, or TCS operational systems have been impacted. The attacker claims to have used password spray and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue as the attack vector,” TCS said in an exchange filing.