Microsoft cloud users’ data compromised in Russian hack – report
Information belonging to users of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services was reportedly compromised by hackers with suspected affiliations to the Russian government, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
The actors responsible for the cyber-attack allegedly accessed the data in question using a third party, which the media outlet described as a corporate partner of the company. John Reed Stark, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Internet Enforcement, one of the people cited in the report, disclosed that if consumers’ data has, in fact, been exfiltrated it would be a “very serious situation.”
In the massive hacking campaign which President Donald Trump blamed on China, several US federal agencies were breached, but sources told the Post that the attack has not affected Microsoft.
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