Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30 million customer accounts

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-denies-data-breach-theft-of-30-million-customer-accounts/

Microsoft has denied the claims of the so-called hacktivists “Anonymous Sudan” that they breached the company’s servers and stole credentials for 30 million customer accounts.

Anonymous Sudan is known for debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Western entities in recent months. The group has confirmed their affiliation with pro-Russian hacktivists like Killnet.

Last month, Microsoft admitted that Anonymous Sudan was responsible for service disruptions and outages at the beginning of June that impacting several of its services, including Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive.

Yesterday, the hacktivists alleged that they had “successfully hacked Microsoft” and “accessed a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails, and passwords.”

Anonymous Sudan offered to sell this database to interested parties for $50,000 and urged interested buyers to engage in contact with their Telegram bot to arrange the purchase of the data…

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Har, har. Microsoft would only admit what it couldn’t get away with.

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Mr. Austin wrote:

Har, har. Microsoft would only admit what it couldn’t get away with.

You are right Mr.Austin. The same reason counts in the EU whether or not Micro$oft has followed the pricacy and safety rules (GDPR + NIS2) and got fined.

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