Criminals abuse a customer support portal to bypassed Microsofts cybersecurity measures.
According to the survey, Windows OS is still a favorite among hackers.
Now, take measures to protect yourself from hackers attack.
The issue is much worse than previously reported.
Reportedly, Microsoft is sending emails to affected users and warning them of this issue.
It is supposed that those users who havent been contacted are not affected.
This means enterprise customers wouldnt be affected, but normal consumer accounts were.
This is also posted to Reddit by one victim on Saturday.
The affair Microsoft email services breached occurred between January 1 and March 28, Microsoft writes in an email.
Once identified, those credentials will be disabled.
Microsoft recommends affected users to change their passwords as a precaution regardless.
In addition, Microsoft also states that it takes data protection very seriously.
Microsoft has been aware of an issue involving unauthorized access to some customers web-based email accounts by hackers.
In addition to the above measures, Microsoft also increases detection and monitoring to further protected impacted accounts.
