Η Microsoft during the during the weekend announced that accountς ενός υπαλλήλου υποστήριξης παραβιάστηκε από hackers. In this way the attackers were able to gain access to the 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.
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 hackers managed to gain access to some information, such as email folder names and message subjects, but did not have access to the message content.
This unauthorized access could allow unauthorized parties to access and/or view information about your account (such as address of your e-mail, folder names, e-mail subject lines and the names of other e-mail addresses you communicate with), but not the content of any e-mails 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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