Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers
Source: AP
By FRANK BAJAK
Updated 6:40 PM CST, March 8, 2024
BOSTON (AP) Microsoft said Friday its still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data.
The hackers from Russias SVR foreign intelligence service used data obtained in the intrusion, which it disclosed in mid-January, to compromise some source-code repositories and internal systems, the software giant said in a blog and a regulatory filing.
A company spokesman would not characterize what source code was accessed and what capability the hackers gained to further compromise customer and Microsoft systems. Microsoft said Friday that the hackers stole secrets from email communications between the company and unspecified customers cryptographic secrets such as passwords, certificates and authentication keys and that it was reaching out to them to assist in taking mitigating measures.
Cloud-computing company Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed on Jan. 24 that it, too, was an SVR hacking victim and that it had been informed of the breach by whom it would not say two weeks earlier, coinciding with Microsofts discovery it had been hacked.
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highplainsdem
(49,060 posts)that we're supposed to turn more and more data over to, on all our devices.
surfered
(557 posts)Aussie105
(5,463 posts)How true.
If MS and HP can't maintain security, what chance do the rest of us have?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,510 posts)IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,821 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,269 posts)I have found that advice given by micro$oft in their support forums to be mostly less than helpful.Their newest OS has a need for more CPU and such than my Thinkpad has. And they're gonna stop supporting W10 sooner or later. Guess I'm going Chromebook after that.