Trail of Errors Led to Chinese Hack of Microsoft Cloud Email

Crash Dump Snapshot Included Active Signing Key
Chinese hackers were able to access the email accounts of senior U.S. officials after Microsoft included an active digital signing key in a snapshot of data taken to analyze a crash of its consumer signing system in April 2021. Inclusion of the key in the crash dump was just one of many mishaps.

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