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[-] Nighed@sffa.community 99 points 2 years ago

The exposed data included backups of personal information belonging to Microsoft employees, including passwords for Microsoft services, secret keys, and an archive of over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages originating from 359 Microsoft employees.

In an advisory on Monday by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) team, Microsoft said that no customer data was exposed, and no other internal services faced jeopardy due to this incident.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 years ago

Wait, they stored passwords in plain text?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 years ago

Possibly or as a weak hash

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Always have done so.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

This is like the evolution of the โ€œlossโ€ meme. Gave me a chuckle.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Microsoft said that no customer data was exposed

Sure, we'll just take your word for it, buddies. Cheers. /laughs in Linux

[-] Random_user@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

You can use Linux and still have a Microsoft account.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Can, but shouldn't. I have a work related Teams account, and one where I tried to rent a Windows VM for a consulting job. That's it though - no private data to get leaked. The work conversations would suck though, but I'll happily remind my boss et al why using Teams is a shitty idea in the first place.

[-] Sinthesis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Microsoft owns GitHub. The blast radius for this could be severe.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but the naivety of people believing in secure clouds needs to die. So if this helps, I'm all for it.

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