Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that a Russia-based cybercriminal group labeled as Midnight Blizzard got access to the email accounts of its top executives in late 2023. Today, the company has confirmed that it is informing more of its customers that emails sent to those executives were seen by that hacker group.
The Russian security breach, combined with an earlier one in 2023 by Chinese hackers who accessed Outlook-based government email accounts in the US and Europe, has been a major embarrassment to Microsoft.
Obviously the only solution is to disable local accounts and force people to upload their sensitive documents to one drive.
Hey, they also decided to take screenshots of everything you do every 2 seconds and put them in an unsecured database. That might work.
It’s too bad conspiracy theorists bullied them into half assed encryption and allowing people to turn it off until next time Microsoft reverts it.
They’re still trying to decide between base 64 encryption and MD5.
Edit: before anyone says it, yes I know.
