Microsoft Email Hacked, Instagram Nasty List Phishing Scam, Facebook Third-Party Data Deals

This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 22nd 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Microsoft email services hacked, the Instagram “Nasty List” phishing scam, and Facebook’s attempted deals to sell y… Continue reading Microsoft Email Hacked, Instagram Nasty List Phishing Scam, Facebook Third-Party Data Deals

Microsoft confirms Outlook.com and Hotmail accounts were breached

Between 1 January and 28 March this year hackers were able to access a “limited number” of consumer Outlook.com, Hotmail and MSN Mail email accounts, Microsoft has confirmed. Continue reading Microsoft confirms Outlook.com and Hotmail accounts were breached

Microsoft Cloud Breach: Hackers Read Your Email for 90 Days

Hackers have been able to read the email of Microsoft’s free cloud customers. No password required. Yes, you read that right. Incredibly, the perps got away with it for almost three months.
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Hackers could read users’ Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email via compromised Microsoft support account

Microsoft says that it had identified that one of its support agents had had their username and password stolen, which allowed hackers to access information stored within users’ email accounts.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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An critical bug in Microsoft left 400M accounts exposed

By Waqas
A bug bounty hunter from India, Sahad Nk who works forSafetyDetective, a cybersecurity firm, has received a reward from Microsoft for uncovering and reporting a series of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft accounts. These vulnerabilities we… Continue reading An critical bug in Microsoft left 400M accounts exposed