Hackers compromised Microsoft support to access email accounts

Over the weekend, Microsoft confirmed that its email services suffered a breach, allowing hackers to view data associated with MSN, Hotmail, and Outlook email accounts.

In a statement to TechCrunch, Microsoft said that the hackers had used a customer support agent'due south compromised credentials to view users' e-mail addresses, binder names, subject lines, and lists of email addresses that affected users had corresponded with.

"Nosotros addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators' admission," a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement.

In its initial statement, Microsoft said that the contents of emails weren't visible to the hackers. However, Motherboard later confirmed with Microsoft that email contents for "around vi percentage" of customers afflicted by the breach were impacted.

Microsoft has sent out electronic mail notifications to those who were affected by the breach, and information technology recommends that users change their passwords as a precautionary mensurate. The visitor says that hackers had access to the information between January 1 and March 28, merely an anonymous source speaking with Motherboard offered a conflicting timeframe, saying that "hackers had access for at to the lowest degree vi months."

According to Microsoft, corporate-level accounts were non afflicted by the breach.

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