The hack reportedly impacted a limited number of “unclassified U.S. email accounts.”
on the breach, Microsoft said Storm-0558's main focus is on “espionage, data theft, and credential access” and it primarily targets “government agencies in Western Europe.”
The hackers were able to gain access to accounts that used Microsoft’s Outlook mail service using forged authentication tokens, which allowed them to impersonate a user., “unclassified U.S. email accounts” were impacted by this breach, although the number of affected accounts is limited. Microsoft said it began investigating the issue on June 16 “based on customer-reported information” and found that the hackers had gained access to the emails a month earlier.
The customer in question appears to be the U.S. government, which “contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson told the“The threat actor Microsoft links to this incident is an adversary based in China that Microsoft calls Storm-0558.
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