Software King of the World, Microsoft has denied that it suffered a massive cloud breach.
Russian hacking group Anonymous Sudan claims it is selling data allegedly belonging to Vole at about £39,400 a pop.
Last month, Microsoft confirmed that the service outages that affected its OneDrive web portals, Azure, and Outlook apps were a result of Layer 7 DDoS attacks. The company experienced these attacks on 5 June .
Anonymous Sudan recently announced that it had successfully hacked Microsoft and stolen a “large database” with over 30 million Microsoft accounts, passwords, and emails.
The group even proved the authenticity of its claims by sharing a data sample. Aside from this, Anonymous Sudan warned that Microsoft will probably deny losing the data.
However, details about the origin of the credentials are still few and far between. So, there is a possibility that the credentials could be old, or acquired from a third party, rather than Microsoft.
Microsoft’s spokesperson has been very clear to deny Anonymous Sudan claims.
“At this time, our analysis of the data shows that this is not a legitimate claim and an aggregation of data,” a Microsoft representative said.
Anonymous Sudan has been running a few successful attacks against Microsoft lately. The group was able to render some Microsoft services unavailable to users about a month ago. As a result, some users reported they were unable to access OneDrive. Anonymous Sudan took responsibility for the DDoS attack, calling the Vole “liars.”
“Microsoft, you think we forgot you? We are motivated to teach you liars a very good lesson in honesty that none of your parents ever taught you,” the group said on Telegram.
The group further stated, “Onedrive has been downed. Let’s see your new excuse now.”
Microsoft states it has seen no evidence that customer data has either been accessed or compromised. Regardless, Anonymous Sudan, which describes themselves as “hacktivists” are targeting France, Denmark, and Sweden-based government entities.
