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US reprimands Microsoft for security failures that allowed Chinese hack
Federal report says ‘cascade of errors’ by tech giant let Chinese operators break into senior government officials’ email accounts
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior US officials including commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo. The Cyber Safety Review Board, created in 2021 by executive order, describes shoddy cybersecurity practices, a lax corporate culture and a lack of sincerity about the company’s knowledge of the targeted breach, which affected multiple US agencies that deal with China. That same group, the panel noted, has been engaged in similar intrusions – compromising cloud providers or stealing authentication keys so it can break into accounts – since at least 2009, targeting companies including Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Dow Chemical and Morgan Stanley.
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