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Microsoft Azure Hit With The Largest Data Breach In Its History; Hundreds Of Executive Accounts Compromised (techreport.com)

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For the first time in the history of Microsoft, a cyberattack has left hundreds of executive accounts compromised and caused a major user data leak as Microsoft Azure was attacked.

According to Proofpoint, the hackers use the malicious techniques that were discovered in November 2023. It includes credential theft through phishing methods and cloud account takeover (CTO) which helped the hackers gain access to both Microsoft365 applications as well as OfficeHome.

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[-] trk@aussie.zone 52 points 10 months ago

MS products in general are a Rube Goldberg machine of domain redirects and authentication requests so you could easily(...?) slip another sneaky phishing site in the middle of the 14th ball drop and 18th cup-on-a-string-swinging-over-a-gap and I'd be one to fall for it. I use 1Pass and it's pretty much constantly popping up in MS website dialogue boxes demanding another password sacrifice before it will let me access some MS service that I was just on five minutes ago.

[-] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

My school uses MS for a bunch of the logins. 2FA is setup through your phone, which isn't annoying or anything. So anytime I login, I need my phone handy, and then I have to type in the stupid code into my phone and then a password to approve it and then maybe 25% of the time it decides me clicking "yes this is me" actually means "no, deny!" and boots me out and then I have to authenticate a different way. And if I sign into a different school website that uses the same damn MS login it kicks me from any other school websites I'm currently logged into so I have to log back into them even if they're still open in another tab and I'm actively working in then. So yeah, I'd like to think I'm smart, but I'd definitely just rush through another MS authentication request because I'm so damn sick of them.

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