Microsoft has hit back at claims by a shadowy hacktivist organization that it has hacked into the company and gained access to the accounts of tens of millions of customers.
Anonymous Sudan, which has past ties to pro-Kremlin groups such as Kilnet, posted details of the alleged attack on Telegram.
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In a post seen by Information security“We are pleased to announce that we have successfully hacked Microsoft and gained access to a large database containing over 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails and passwords. If you have any questions, please contact us.” A bot to negotiate. “
The group announced it would sell the harvest for $50,000. I’ve attached what I claim to be a “small sample” of the details that were compromised as proof of that statement.
However, a short statement from Microsoft was very clear.
“Our analysis of the data at this time has determined that this is not a valid claim and is not a collection of data. We see no evidence that our customer data has been accessed or compromised,” it said. increase.
Anonymous Sudan has caused problems for Microsoft in the past. The tech giant confirmed in mid-June that the group, which it tracks as “Storm-1359,” had launched a layer 7 DDoS attack against the company earlier that month.
“Since early June 2023, Microsoft has seen a spike in traffic to some services, temporarily impacting availability,” the company said at the time. “Microsoft has assessed that Storm-1359 has access to an array of botnets and tools that may allow attackers to launch DDoS attacks from multiple cloud services and open proxy infrastructure. And it seems to be focusing on publicity.”
In the same blog post, Microsoft claimed that it “found no evidence that customer data was accessed or compromised.”
In February, Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for a number of DDoS attacks against Swedish companies, claiming it was in retaliation for the Koran burning near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.
But experts at the time said the cyberattack was a Russian false flag operation aimed at continuing to incite hatred against Sweden in Islamic countries like Turkey, which have veto powers over Sweden’s NATO membership. I was evaluating that it might be.
