Russian hackers behind Solarwinds breach accessed emails of senior Microsoft leaders

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) allegedly hacked into the email accounts of senior leaders at Microsoft, the company said late last week. In a Friday afternoon statement, Microsoft said it detected a nation-state attack on their corporate systems on January 12 and began an investigation that uncovered a long-running campaign by the prolific hacking group

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