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Microsoft could have prevented Chinese cloud email hack, US cyber report says

Microsoft is in the middle of overhauling its security processes.

The hackers used an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens to access Outlook on the web (OWA) and Outlook.com. Microsoft published that theory in September, and recently updated its blog post to admit “we have not found a crash dump containing the impacted key material.” Microsoft is charging businesses $4 per hour of usage as part of a consumption model to access this latest AI tool, just as the company struggles with an ongoing attack from Russian state-sponsored hackers.

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