Microsoft notifies users that emails were spied on by Russian hackers.
According to Microsoft, the hackers went for cybersecurity experts who were looking into the activities of the Russian hacking gang.
About half a year after Microsoft originally revealed the hack, the tech giant revealed on Thursday that Russian hackers who had breached its systems and spied on employee inboxes earlier this year had also taken emails belonging to its clients.
Given that Microsoft is under growing regulatory scrutiny for the security of its systems and products against foreign threats, the disclosure highlights the scope of the compromise. A group of hackers, purportedly from China, broke into Microsoft last year and took thousands of emails belonging to the US government.
Microsoft claims the hackers targeted cybersecurity experts looking into the activities of the Russian hacking group, but the Russian government has never commented on the accusations of hacking.
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