Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts

ronjor · Apr 13, 2019

Ingrid Lunden, Zack Whittaker 13 Apr 2019

Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised.
“We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access,” said a Microsoft spokesperson in an email.
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itman · Apr 13, 2019

Microsoft reveals hackers accessed some Outlook.com accounts for months

Microsoft has started notifying some Outlook.com users that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. The software giant discovered that a support agent’s credentials were compromised for its web mail service, allowing unauthorized access to some accounts between January 1st and March 28th, 2019. Microsoft says the hackers could have viewed account email addresses, folder names, and subject lines of emails, but not the content of emails or attachments.
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/13/18309192/microsoft-outlook-email-account-hack-breach-security

guest · Apr 15, 2019

The issue is much worse than previously reported
Hackers Could Read Your Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Emails by Abusing Microsoft Support
April 15, 2019
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...otmail-msn-outlook-microsoft-customer-support

But the issue is much worse than previously reported, with the hackers able to access email content from a large number of Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts, according to a source who witnessed the attack in action and described it before Microsoft’s statement, as well as screenshots provided to Motherboard. Microsoft confirmed to Motherboard that hackers gained access to the content of some customers’ emails.

In its notification email, Microsoft said the hackers couldn’t access email content or attachments, and then in another section, that the company’s “data indicates” email contents could not have been viewed.
Motherboard’s source, however, said that the technique allowed full access to email content.
Microsoft said that applied to around 6 percent of a small number of impacted customers, although the company didn’t specify how many in total.
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ronjor · Apr 29, 2019

Microsoft Outlook Email Breach Targeted Cryptocurrency Users

by Joseph Cox Apr 29 2019
Earlier this month, Motherboard revealed that Microsoft's email services were compromised. Multiple victims now say that hackers stole their cryptocurrency.
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