Posted on 09/11/2023 9:53:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Chinese hackers broke into a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, leading to the unauthorized access of email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, casting a shadow over the tech giant’s cybersecurity measures. The hack occurred in June, but the company just completed an internal investigation that pointed the finger at its own sloppy security practices.
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has disclosed that China-linked hackers compromised the corporate account of one of its engineers, then used this unauthorized access to steal a digital key in order to forge authentication tokens. These tokens granted them access to email accounts on Microsoft’s cloud servers, including those belonging to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Representative Don Bacon, and State Department officials.
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Who would believe that the Chinese hacked an account? They and Zelensky own Jao Bai-din and could simply ask for the keys to government accounts.
btt
I wouldn't if the software was from someone other than Microsoft ...
Microsoft just sent me 874th software update for Windows 10.
Cybersecurity measures are fail safe fail safe fail safe.....
From Reddit
So how did that *one person* in your department get fired?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/16fgeag/so_how_did_that_one_person_in_your_department_get/
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