{"id":148647,"date":"2022-10-21T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/microsoft-confirms-server-misconfiguration-led-to-65000-companies-data-leak"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:22:48","slug":"microsoft-confirms-server-misconfiguration-led-to-65000-companies-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/microsoft-confirms-server-misconfiguration-led-to-65000-companies-data-leak","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies\u2019 Data Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-confirms-server-misconfiguration-led-to-65000-companies-data-leak.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective customers, such as the planning or potential implementation and provisioning of Microsoft services,\u201d Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/msrc-blog.microsoft.com\/2022\/10\/19\/investigation-regarding-misconfigured-microsoft-storage-location-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an alert.<\/p>\n<p>The misconfiguration of the Azure Blob Storage was spotted on September 24, 2022, by cybersecurity company SOCRadar, which termed the leak <strong>BlueBleed<\/strong>. Microsoft said it\u2019s in the process of directly notifying impacted customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication. \u201cThis misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between Microsoft and prospective customers, such as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}