{"id":48087,"date":"2017-10-18T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48087"},"modified":"2017-10-18T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T06:36:11","slug":"microsoft-remains-tight-lipped-about-2013-internal-database-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/microsoft-remains-tight-lipped-about-2013-internal-database-hack.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft remains tight-lipped about 2013 internal database hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Microsoft remains tight-lipped about 2013 internal database hack<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Microsoft remains tight-lipped about 2013 internal database hack:- A SECRETIVE INTERNAL DATABASE used by Microsoft to track bugs in its software was compromised by hackers in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The hack, which is only the second known breach of such a corporate database, was revealed by five ex-Microsoft employees who described it to Reuters in separate interviews. Microsoft, however, has not disclosed the extent of the breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The firm reportedly learnt of the breach in early 2013 after a hacking group launched a series of attacks against high profile tech firms including Apple, Twitter and Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The hacking group in question, known as called Morpho, Butterfly and Wild Neutron by security researchers, is said to have exploited vulnerabilities in Java in order to penetrate employees\u2019 Apple (eh?) computers and then company networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The five ex-employees said the company\u2019s officials became worried once they realised the database, which contained descriptions of critical and unfixed vulnerabilities in Windows, had been accessed. The database had reportedly been poorly protected with only a password needed to enter it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">While Microsoft failed to disclose the breach and had reportedly fixed the flaws \u201cwithin months of the attack\u201d, three of the ex-employees interviewed by Reuters said that the stolen bugs may have been used in attacks following the breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThey absolutely discovered that bugs had been taken,\u201d one source said. \u201cWhether or not those bugs were in use, I don\u2019t think they did a very thorough job of discovering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Microsoft released a short statement following the attack on 22 February 2013 that said: \u201cAs reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cWe found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations. 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