Hackers claim to have stolen data of 30 million Microsoft customer accounts
Hacking and denial-of-service group Anonymous Sudan claims that it has stolen data of 30 million Microsoft customer accounts. Microsoft has denied the claims.
The hacking group claimed earlier this month that it hacked Microsoft successfully and got its hands on a database that contained information of more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, including passwords.
The group posted the data for sale on a Telegram channel and is asking for $50,000 for the entire database. The post includes samples of the data, 100 credential pairs, but the data could not be linked to the alleged hack.
The group writes: "We announce that we have successfully hacked Microsoft and have access to a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, email and password".
Anonymous Sudan is asking potential buyers to contact their bot for negotiation. The group has been active since January 2023 according to a Flashpoint analysis. It ran distributed denial of service attacks against critical infrastructure targets in countries such as Sweden, Australia, Germany or Israel.
Bleeping Computer asked Microsoft for a statement and the company denied the data breach claims. Microsoft told Bleeping Computer that its analysis of the available data came to the conclusion that the claim was not legitimate and that the published data was an aggregation of data.
In other words: Microsoft claims that Anonymous Sudan created the data from past data sets that were leaked or breached. A Microsoft spokesperson told the site that it has not seen evidence that customer data was accessed or compromised.
Microsoft has two main options to verify the claims. It can either look at the data that was published publicly to determine its legitimacy, or it can run an analysis on its systems to find out if a breach occurred. Microsoft's initial reaction to the leak could have been posted to deter potential buyers.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.