Microsoft denies that 30 million customer accounts have been compromised

Anonymous Sudan, a hacker group, has come out to announce that it was able to access data from 30 million customer accounts from Microsoft. The attackers are selling the information to interested parties for $50,000. However, Microsoft has indicated that these claims are false, and that customer data remains safe.

July 5, 2023 · 1 min · 102 words · Tyler Mccormick

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The attack caused widespread disruptions peaking at over 18,000 users.

The company further added that the hackers weren’t able to access customer data.

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We have seen no evidence that our customer data has been accessed or compromised.

To this end, it’s not yet clear whether Microsoft will be looking into the matter closely.

The hacker group deployed its attack on Microsoft’s OSI layer 7 to cause the outage.

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The OSI layer 7 is a platform where apps like OneDrive and Outlook source online grid services.

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