Microsoft experienced massive data breach affecting anonymized data held on its customer support database.
The data breach affected up to 250 million people as a result of the tech giant failing to implement proper protections.
The information compromised included email addresses, IP addresses and support case details.
Source: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/microsoft-suffers-data-breach-affecting-up-to-250-million-people
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/microsoft
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"date": "01/2020",
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'description': 'Microsoft experienced a massive data breach affecting '
'anonymized data held on its customer support database. The '
'data breach affected up to 250 million people as a result of '
'the tech giant failing to implement proper protections. The '
'information compromised included email addresses, IP '
'addresses, and support case details.',
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