Following the publishing of the data of a countless number of US police officers and federal agents by hackers, another major breach that involves Microsoft email platform has been uncovered. This involves @hotmail.com and @msn.com email users that might have their email subjects, email address of the users and those they are communicating with exposed. However, the extent of this breach is not clear yet but it is unlikely that the login details were compromised. In any case, it will be advisable to change your password just to be safe.
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According to Microsoft, the breach happened from January 1 to March 28 by exploiting a customer’s agent credentials. Microsoft since then disabled the credentials in question, thereby putting an end to the attack. Due to this occurrence, you might get some spam emails sent from sketchy sources that will want you to provide payment or any information whatsoever. You should be careful in dealing with such emails as they might be fraudulent or a phishing attack. Microsoft has also increased monitoring on the accounts affected to quickly detect any strange operations.
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How the attack was staged is still unclear neither are the parties involved and the number of users affected. Moreso, enterprise users appear not to be affected by this development. Nonetheless, breaching emails remain one of the most common types of hacking in this age.
[Source: Techcrunch]
