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Midnight Blizzard reads Microsoft executives' email
Microsoft disclosed that Russia's Midnight Blizzard used a password spray on a legacy test account to reach email of senior leaders and security staff, later also stealing source code.
- Organisation
- Microsoft
- Disclosed
- 19 January 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Corporate email, source code
- Attacker
- Midnight Blizzard (Russia)
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Microsoft MSRC ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Midnight Blizzard reads Microsoft executives' email”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 19 Jan 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-01-19-microsoft-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Microsoft MSRC, https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/.
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