The hackers who carried out a sophisticated cyberattack on US government agencies and on private companies were able to access Microsoft’s source code, the company said Thursday.
A Microsoft investigation turned up “unusual activity with a small number of internal accounts” and also revealed that “one account had been used to view source code in a number of source code repositories,” the company said in a blog post. Microsoft said that the account didn’t have the ability to modify code and that no company services or customer data was put at risk.
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Source: Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers viewed source code – CNET
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