U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft.
In a statement published Thursday, the U.S. cyber agency said the cyberattack, which Microsoft initially disclosed in January, allowed the hackers to steal federal government emails “through a successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts.”
The hackers, which Microsoft calls “Midnight Blizzard,” also known as APT29, are widely believed to work for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR.
Yes. Despite the obvious security flaws and other bullshit associated with using Micro$oft, they’ve leveraged their historical monopoly position to manage email for large swaths of the federal government.
It’s fucking nightmarish and insane to boot, and here we are.
Oh and also russia stole a bunch of emails from us becase of that.
So. Thanks for running the government like a shitty business, feds! Yeah you sure saved a boatload on datacenter expenses didntya.