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Microsoft explains how Russian hackers spied on its executives
A test environment didn’t have two-factor authentication enabled.
Hackers were able to access the email accounts of some members of Microsoft’s senior leadership team — potentially spying on them for weeks or months. “How does a non-production test environment lead to the compromise of the most senior officials in Microsoft?” asked CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in an interview with CNBC earlier this week. Microsoft still has plenty more explaining to do, especially if it wants its customers to believe it’s truly improving the way it designs, builds, tests, and operates its software and services to better protect against security threats.
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