{"id":25032,"date":"2019-04-17T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25032"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:47:17","slug":"hackers-abused-support-portal-to-read-microsoft-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/hackers-abused-support-portal-to-read-microsoft-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Abused Support Portal to Read Microsoft E-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ywyz3x\/hackers-could-read-your-hotmail-msn-outlook-microsoft-customer-support\">Joseph Cox<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jason_koebler\/status\/1117557094503333899\">Jason Koebler<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ywyz3x\/hackers-could-read-your-hotmail-msn-outlook-microsoft-customer-support\"><p>On Saturday, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/04\/13\/microsoft-support-agent-email-hack\/\">confirmed to TechCrunch<\/a> that some users of the company&rsquo;s email service had been targeted by hackers. A hacker or group of hackers had first broken into a customer support account for Microsoft, and then used that to gain access to information related to customers&rsquo; email accounts such as the subject lines of their emails and who they&rsquo;ve communicated with.<\/p><p>But the issue is much worse than previously reported, with the hackers able to access email content from a large number of Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail email accounts, according to a source who witnessed the attack in action and described it before Microsoft&rsquo;s statement, as well as screenshots provided to Motherboard.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Motherboard&rsquo;s source, however, said that the technique allowed full access to email content.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Cox (via Jason Koebler): On Saturday, Microsoft confirmed to TechCrunch that some users of the company&rsquo;s email service had been targeted by hackers. A hacker or group of hackers had first broken into a customer support account for Microsoft, and then used that to gain access to information related to customers&rsquo; email accounts such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-17T20:47:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"cf57c24c-425c-42de-ba55-670ecb7947aa","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-17T20:47:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Az1fCTEJcQt66VWcOy3lHqg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1755,150,818,37,1605,981,355,48],"class_list":["post-25032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-breach","tag-email","tag-hotmail","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-outlook","tag-passwords","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25033,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25032\/revisions\/25033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}