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Microsoft Azure Hit With The Largest Data Breach In Its History; Hundreds Of Executive Accounts Compromised (techreport.com)

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For the first time in the history of Microsoft, a cyberattack has left hundreds of executive accounts compromised and caused a major user data leak as Microsoft Azure was attacked.

According to Proofpoint, the hackers use the malicious techniques that were discovered in November 2023. It includes credential theft through phishing methods and cloud account takeover (CTO) which helped the hackers gain access to both Microsoft365 applications as well as OfficeHome.

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[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

every day i lose my mind a little more at how much trust hundreds of thousands of companies across the world place in third parties like microsoft to handle literally all of their sensitive data, as if that could be a good idea in any universe

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 months ago

While I don't disagree it's dangerous, most companies handling their own data would likely do a lot worse, just with smaller chance of being targeted.

[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

That's a fair point to be honest but it would mean more job openings for me, so... /j

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