Microsoft has hidden hacker attack

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Microsoft скрыла хакерскую атакуFour years ago hackers broke into the database of Microsoft, which kept the information about the vulnerability programs of the company.

Former employees told the publication that the hackers broke into a database that contained information about the vulnerabilities of the company’s products.

A sophisticated group of hackers have penetrated into the secret database that the company used to collect information about errors in their products.

About it Reuters on condition of anonymity said five former employees of the company.

They say that in 2013, the company has not announced the extent of the attack to the public or customers. Microsoft has refused to speak about the incident.

The publication writes that the database contained a description of a critical and unpatched vulnerabilities in popular software, which is developing an American company, particularly in the Windows operating system. Spies and hackers around the world dream of getting such information because it shows them how to create tools for electronic entry.

Former employees told Reuters that Microsoft has fixed the gaps for a few months after the cyber attacks. However, hackers were still able to use the information from the database to attacks on government and corporate systems in those days.

“Bad guys with access to such information was literally “the key to the closet with the skeletons” for hundreds of millions of computers around the world,” said Eric Rosenbach, who was the assistant Secretary of defense for cyber security in those days.

Recently, Yahoo announced the hacking three billion users in 2013. The attackers gained access to usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and in some cases, answers to security questions. The company insists that the hackers were unable to access unencrypted passwords, and Bank cards linked to accounts.

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