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Microsoft proves to be at fault for a summer 2023 data breach, claimed by a federal cyber safety board.

There was a Microsoft hack. The tech company said it was hacked by a Russia-backed group, Midnight Blizzard, or Nobelium.

Chinese hackers stole tens of thousands of emails from US State Department accounts, according to a Senate staffer. The hack, which also affected other organisations, has strained US-China relations and raised concerns about Microsofts role in providing IT services to the US government.

The move follows a high-level hack that allowed allegedly Chinese spies to steal emails from senior U.S. officials - and complaints from security specialists and lawmakers against paying for tools

10 March 2021, 10:12 pm EST By In the beginning of the month of March, Microsoft revealed that there were vulnerabilities reported in its Exchange Server mail and calendar software. This system is being used by several government entities and personels in different private and public companies. So far, as per initial investigations, the hackers were called as Hafnium, allegedly Chinese hackers.  About 30,000 companies and organizations were affected on the said hacking. However, there were st...

Thursday, March 11, 2021 As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is estimated to affect at least 30,000 companies based in the United States. It is reported that the hackers installed web shells (and sometimes multiple web shells) into Microsoft’s customers’ email servers, giving the hackers back doors into the victims’ email content. These web shells allow the attackers to have complete remote control...

The twin hacking campaigns involve the US’s two most powerful cyberspace adversaries, and both have led to emergency meetings of the White House National Security Council, in part because of the unusually wide net cast by the attackers.

Over 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsofts email software, a person familiar with the US governments response said.

Microsoft said more than 40 organizations around the world, including in Canada, were targeted using network-management software from Texas-based SolarWinds