DoJ’s Microsoft 365 Email Accounts Compromised in SolarWinds Attacks
Three percent of email accounts were breached, the Department of Justice reports.
Some 3% of Microsoft 365 accounts at the US Department of Justice were breached by the attackers behind the SolarWinds attacks, the DoJ announced today.
The attacks, which the FBI, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and National Security Agency (NSA) yesterday confirmed were the handiwork of Russian nation-state hackers, affected less than 10 US government agencies via the breach of SolarWinds’ Orion network management software.
“After learning of the malicious activity, the OCIO eliminated the identified method by which the actor was accessing the O365 email environment,” adding that classified systems do not appear to have been affected in the email breach.
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