Microsoft this week blamed hackers for stealing emails from senior US officials, including State Department employees.
WASHINGTON — In late June, one of cybersecurity expert Steven Adair's clients got an alert from Microsoft: One of the client's employees working on human rights issues had their email account compromised. The client wanted to know if Adair could get to the bottom of it.
The hackers who broke into his client's emails were the same set of sophisticated cyber spies Microsoft this week blamed for stealing emails from senior U.S. officials, including State Department employees and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Microsoft said the hacks worked not by hijacking computers or stealing passwords but by taking advantage of a still-undisclosed security issue with the company's ubiquitous online email service.
Microsoft did not immediately return messages seeking comment on Adair's experience, Wyden's comment, or other criticism of its security. But competitors squeezed by Microsoft's security offering are sounding the alarm over how wide swaths of industry and government were effectively putting all their eggs in one basket.
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