“A small group (~6% of the original, already limited subset of consumers) was notified that the bad actors could have had unauthorized access to the content of their email accounts, and was provided with additional guidance and support,” according to the Microsoft spokesperson. The tech giant says its notification to the majority of those impacted noted that bad actors would not have had unauthorized access to the content of emails or attachments. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access,” a Microsoft spokesperson told me. Microsoft wasn’t particularly clear at first, but it did reveal some information to me in a statement over email. The source also demonstrated that adversaries were able to see a user’s calendar and birth date. The source told the site that hackers were able to access any email account apart from corporate level accounts. Motherboard attributes this information to a source who had witnessed the attack in action.
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