Microsoft: Outlook.com breach left some accounts exposed.

Η Microsoft has sent an email to some of its users Outlook.com, informing them of a security breach.

ΤThe issue concerned breached credentials belonging to a support agent who left certain accounts exposed to "unauthorized parties", according to Microsoft, with the vulnerability running from January 1 to March 28, 2019. Since then, contract credentials have deactivated.

Outlook.com users have received an email detailing the issue. According to Microsoft, anyone with the credentials could see the email addresses, folder names, email subject lines, and email addresses of the people the user interacted with, but could not see content or email attachments. post office.

Microsoft said in a statement to Outlook.com users that it had received notification that the account-related information (but not the content of any e-mail) could have been exposed, but Microsoft did not there is no indication that this has happened. »

Affected users may be exposed to phishing emails (Phishing), increased spam and other annoying content. Users receiving this notification should be especially careful when interacting with emails, verifying that they were sent from a legitimate address and that the links contained do not redirect them to random websites that may collect login information.

Although users' e-mail login information was not compromised by security breaches, Microsoft still recommends that users reset their e-mail passwords. This action can be configured in the account security settings menu.

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