Microsoft Confirms System Hack By The Infamous Lapsus$: Bloomberg

  • Microsoft Corp MSFT confirmed "limited access" by the hacker group Lapsus$ to its systems and shared its findings regarding the group, Bloomberg reports.
  • Lapsus$ recently claimed of having stolen the source code for the Bing search engine and Cortana voice assistant.
  • Microsoft found that Lapsus$ had compromised a single account, granting limited access. 
  • Microsoft's cybersecurity response teams quickly engaged to remediate and prevent further activity. 
  • Lapsus$ had been expanding the geographic range of its targets and going after government organizations, tech, telecom, health-care, and crypto accounts.
  • Lapsus$ announced their attacks on social media or promoted their intent to buy credentials from employees of target organizations.
  • Lapsus$ had previously breached the cybersecurity defenses of NVIDIA Corp NVDA and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd SSNLF.
  • Lapsus$ also claimed to access the system privileges of Okta Inc OKTA, which was responsible for user authentication services for thousands of corporate clients.
  • Price Action: MSFT shares are down 0.59% at $302.28 premarket on the last check Wednesday.
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