Hundreds of organisations hit in global Microsoft hack
Hackers may have stolen sensitive data, including passwords and cryptographic keys, from connected Outlook and Teams accounts, although cloud-based services were not compromised.
The identity of the perpetrators is unknown, but some of the targets included a US state legislature, institutions in China, a local government agency in Spain, and a university in Brazil.
The vulnerability exploited was inadvertently revealed after Microsoft issued a fix for a similar SharePoint flaw earlier this month.
Microsoft has released one patch, with two more SharePoint versions awaiting custom fixes, and the FBI is currently investigating the incident.
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