Microsoft hack: hackers could read emails

Microsoft at during the weekend announced that a support worker's account was hacked by . In this way the attackers managed to have to users' email accounts.

However, the news reports that the incident was worse than what the company wants to present in its announcement and that the hackers were able to read the users' emails.Microsoft

A Publication of Motherboard reveals that attackers could "gain access to any email account as long as it was not corporate."

Microsoft says in the notice it sent to its users that the hackers were able to access some information, such as the names of email folders and the subjects of messages, but they did not access the of the message.

This unauthorized access could allow unauthorized parties to access and / or view information about your account (such as your email address, folder names, email subject lines, and names other email addresses you contact), but not the content of any emails or attachments

However, according to Motherboard, the hackers were able to gain "full access to the email content" as the support account they were using had high access rights.

Microsoft later acknowledged that this was true, stating that the emails of a very small number of users may have been exposed.

In addition, although Microsoft reports that the breach occurred from January to March, the Motherboard publication states that hackers have been accessing email accounts for about six months. However, Microsoft denied it.

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