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Microsoft President Brad Smith said the hack into IT management firm SolarWinds affected dozens of Microsoft s customers. Altaf Qadri/AP
Microsoft President Brad Smith has called the ever-growing hacking campaign into a U.S. tech firm that was discovered this week a moment of reckoning. This is not espionage as usual, even in the digital age. Instead, it represents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological vulnerability for the United States and the world, he wrote in a blog post Thursday.
Smith said 40 of Microsoft s customers were also hit by the breach because they had the SolarWinds software targeted by suspected Russian hackers. At least 80% of customers were in the U.S., but the rest were in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the U.K., Israel and the United Arab Emirates. He said he expects the number of victims to grow.
Microsoft was breached in SolarWinds cyberattack, in what one exec calls a moment of reckoning
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Microsoft Says 40 Customers Hit By Ongoing Hack Of Government Agencies
By Jaclyn Diaz
December 18, 2020
Microsoft President Brad Smith has called the ever-growing hacking campaign into a U.S. tech firm that was discovered this week “a moment of reckoning.”
“This is not ‘espionage as usual,’ even in the digital age. Instead, it represents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological vulnerability for the United States and the world,” he wrote in a blog post Thursday.
Smith said 40 of Microsoft’s customers were also hit by the breach because they had the SolarWinds software targeted by suspected Russian hackers. At least 80% of customers were in the U.S., but the rest were in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the U.K., Israel and the United Arab Emirates. He said he expects the number of victims to grow.
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December 18, 2020
Microsoft President Brad Smith has called the ever-growing hacking campaign into a U.S. tech firm that was discovered this week “a moment of reckoning.”
“This is not ‘espionage as usual,’ even in the digital age. Instead, it represents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological vulnerability for the United States and the world,” he wrote in a blog post Thursday.
Smith said 40 of Microsoft’s customers were also hit by the breach because they had the SolarWinds software targeted by suspected Russian hackers. At least 80% of customers were in the U.S., but the rest were in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the U.K., Israel and the United Arab Emirates. He said he expects the number of victims to grow.
Energy Dept., nuclear weapons agency breached in remarkable cyberattack
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The Treasury Department was one of several federal agencies breached in an ongoing state-sponsored cyberattack. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg | License Photo
Dec. 18 (UPI) The number of victims in an ongoing state-sponsored cyberattack continues to climb after the Department of Energy and the agency that oversees the nation s nuclear stockpile confirmed they were targeted.
Microsoft also said it has identified more than 40 customers that were breached in the cyberattack, which it described as remarkable for its scope, sophistication and impact.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed the government had been targeted in a complex state-sponsored cyberattack that utilized a vulnerability in software developed by information and technology management company SolarWinds, which serves more than 300,000 customers, including hundreds of U.S.
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