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Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China

4 points| twhitmore | 2 years ago |nytimes.com

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twhitmore|2 years ago

Chinese hackers intent on collecting intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday night.

Microsoft said that in all, about 25 organizations, including government agencies, had been compromised by the hacking group, which used forged authentication tokens to get access to individual email accounts.

richij|2 years ago

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