Microsoft has experienced a data breach involving attackers leveraging a customer support account to access customers’ email information, including the content of some email content, according to news reports. The company on Saturday confirmed to TechCrunch that a “limited” number of people who rely on Microsoft-managed email services such as @Outlook.com, @MSN.com and @Hotmail.com experienced account compromises. Microsoft notified users that hackers may have had able to access information about their accounts — including their email address, email subject lines, and frequent contacts — but not the contents of any messages or attachments, according to TechCrunch. Hackers were in fact able to access email content from “a large number” of Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts, Motherboard reported Sunday. A source told Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox outsiders could exploited a customer support portal to infiltrate any normal customer account, reading contents including the body of an email message. Enterprise accounts […]
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