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22 Jan 2020 · National · Technology
Data Leak / Misconfiguration HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

A cluster of five internal customer service and support databases tracking historical user interactions spanning 14 years was inadvertently exposed to the web without authentication due to a misconfigured network security rule.

Incident details

Organisation
Microsoft
Date
22 Jan 2020
Attack type
Data Leak / Misconfiguration
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Technology
State
National
Records affected
250000000
Threat actor
Human Error

Source

techradar.com ↗
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