{"id":30083,"date":"2020-12-18T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30083"},"modified":"2020-12-18T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:09:41","slug":"microsoft-says-systems-were-exposed-in-massive-solarwinds-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30083","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says systems were exposed in massive SolarWinds hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s systems were exposed as part of the suspected Russian cybersecurity hack that targeted SolarWinds and hit multiple government agencies, people familiar with the matter told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zsbdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzlwbfm_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zsbdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzlwbfm_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608444262792000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5jOeBcqeMfemI0oogE-pWspTfKw\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The people told the newswire that Microsoft\u2019s own products were used to further attacks on others. It\u2019s unclear how many Microsoft users were affected.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wgvzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfsnwjv_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wgvzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdfsnwjv_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608444262792000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFj4kSrGNtm-ab_wE2woXBctUxcZw\">noted<\/a>\u00a0that multiple government agencies use Office 365, including the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw said in a statement posted to Twitter that the company had detected malicious SolarWind binaries, which it removed. It has not found evidence of \u201caccess to production services or customer data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigations, which are ongoing, have found absolutely no indications that our systems were used to attack others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of federal agencies had been breached earlier this year as part of the cyberattack on SolarWinds. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grynsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwtlkmk_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grynsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcwtlkmk_rrgcggnrnpcvjwnnkrnt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608444262792000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHXBToSMmNhYRGA9Rty_Frassfvw\">issued an alert<\/a>\u00a0detailing the attack on Thursday, in which it warned that it posed a \u201cgrave risk\u201d to federal and state governments, as well as private sector organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s systems were exposed as part&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30084,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083\/revisions\/30084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}