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Microsoft Allegedly Breached

by caaqil on 3/20/22, 7:30 AM with 15 comments

  • by cryptos on 3/20/22, 10:40 AM

    Twitter is such a terrible medium for communicating more than a headline!

  • by zinekeller on 3/20/22, 1:01 PM

    If I base on the list, it seems that it was their California branch that was breached. No meaningful Azure or Windows source code was listed (which is hosted in Redmond) and a lot of Bing and Cortana ones (which are primarily developed in California).

    Although source code leakage is bad, it should be noted that most governments already has copies of the Windows and Office source code access through legitimate means (Source Sharing agreements).

  • by zatertip on 3/20/22, 10:02 AM

  • by FDSGSG on 3/20/22, 10:40 AM

    This happens on an almost yearly basis. Source code for ~all major windows releases is actively traded. (Same also goes for Apple, Cisco, etc...) Protecting source code that a huge amount of employees need access to is hard.

    Previous public example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40366823

    Many exploit devs have access to this stuff, but would obviously never publicly discuss it, fearing leaks and liability.

  • by tuwtuwtuwtuw on 3/20/22, 9:52 AM

    That group has been trying to buy Microsoft employee credentials. Maybe they found a seller.

  • by moltke on 3/20/22, 9:54 AM

    Maybe now people will understand why local user accounts are important... who am I kidding things are just going to keep getting worse.