The tech company said it detected activity by the group Midnight Blizzard.
January 19, 2024, 5:38 PM ET
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Microsoft revealed Friday that some of its corporate email accounts were hacked by a Russian-backed group.
The tech company said in a blog post that its security team detected the attack on Jan. 12 and quickly identified the group responsible: Midnight Blizzard, “the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.”
In this April 27, 2021, file photo, a sign is shown on the Microsoft corporate campus in Redmond, Wash.Sipa USA via AP, FILE
In late November, the group allegedly used a “password spray attack,” where a user uses a single common password against multiple accounts on the same application, to “compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold,” according to Microsoft.
The group then “used the account’s permissions to access a very…
