Microsoft Outlook User Emails Potentially Exposed in Hack Earlier This Year
Some Microsoft Outlook users potentially had their email accounts hacked between Jan. 1 and March 28, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The company didn’t specify how many accounts. “Bad actors could have had unauthorized access to the content of their…
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email accounts,” the spokesperson said, but most of those affected weren't at risk of email access. About 6 percent of the original subset of users could be at risk, the company said: “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access.” The company also increased “detection and monitoring” for impacted accounts “out of an abundance of caution.”