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2019-04-16 10:29
On Friday, an unknown number of customers of Microsoft’s webmail services (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN Mail) received a notice from the company telling them that attackers had access to their email account for three months. “We have identified that a Microsoft support agent’s credentials were compromised, enabling individuals outside Microsoft to access information within your Microsoft email account,” Microsoft told the victims. “This unauthorized access could have allowed unauthorized parties to access and/or view information related … More → The post Hackers used credentials of a Microsoft Support worker to access users’ webmail appeared first on Help Net Security.
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