A Biden administration-appointed review board says “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyberoperators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.
By Frank Bajak, Associated PressFILE - The Microsoft logo is seen in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France, April 12, 2016. In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday, April 2, 2024, saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
It concluded that “Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul” given the company’s ubiquity and critical role in the global technology ecosystem. Microsoft products “underpin essential services that support national security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety.”
It said Microsoft’s CEO and board should institute “rapid cultural change” including publicly sharing “a plan with specific timelines to make fundamental, security-focused reforms across the company and its full suite of products.” Separately, the board expressed concern about a separate hack disclosed by the Redmond, Washington, company in January — this one of email accounts including those of an undisclosed number of senior Microsoft executives and an undisclosed number of Microsoft customers and attributed to state-backed Russian hackers.
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