Implications of the Microsoft hack - question form outside the community

I'm a programmer at an ISP company, without much expertise in cyber security, trying to grasp the Microsoft hack's implications - what could have been done differently and its impact on the industry.



From what I gather, the hack involved an email phishing campaign targeting users without two-factor authentication. It seems like a risk anyone could face.



To prevent such incidents, in my view, they could:

1. Enforce two-factor authentication for all users.
2. Isolate the codebase entirely and implement …

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