{"id":303136,"date":"2019-04-15T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=303136"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T06:02:22","slug":"microsoft-reveals-major-email-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/303136-microsoft-reveals-major-email-security-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reveals major email security breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/04\/13\/microsoft-support-agent-email-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> that a number of users who use the company&#8217;s email services have had their details compromised in a security breach.<\/p>\n<p>The web mail services affected include platforms like Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN.<\/p>\n<p>The company sent out an email to affected users stating that hackers were able to access user email addresses, subject lines of emails, names of their email contacts, and folder names.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft stated that the content of emails and login credentials were not compromised in the data breach, but still recommended that affected users change their passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers reportedly accessed Microsoft&#8217;s system by compromising a customer support agent\u2019s credentials, which the company said it has now disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The unauthorised access to this web mail data was recorded between 1 January 2019 and 28 March 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302596-you-can-now-edit-microsoft-office-files-in-google-docs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can now edit Microsoft Office files in Google Docs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed that a number of users who use the company&#8217;s email services have had their details compromised in a security breach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":256777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7695,3210,123,3508,17198],"class_list":["post-303136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-email","tag-hotmail","tag-microsoft","tag-msn","tag-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}