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Microsoft Security Shocker As 250 Million Customer Records Exposed Online
Forbes ^
| Jan 22, 2020
| Davey Winder
Posted on 01/22/2020 2:26:58 PM PST by dayglored
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Yikes. Could be worse, but it's pretty awful.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:26:58 PM PST
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:27:54 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Ironically funny...............
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:28:38 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: dayglored
Maybe they could offer a password manager as an enhancement to Explorer. /S
To: dayglored
Operating systems like Windows were designed so that advertisers, cookies, server farms could access your computer processes easily. They are primarily designed to work for the marketers and data miners. It’s why there are barn-door sized holes that hackers can drive Mack trucks through.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:32:23 PM PST
by
Fido969
(In!)
To: dayglored
From the article:
"...Those records were customer service and support logs detailing conversations between Microsoft support agents and customers from across the world..."
On the one hand, those were private conversations that could contain security-damaging exchanges and data.
On the other hand, they probably MOSTLY contained the same information as thousands of "support forum" pages on hundreds of public sites. The difference being that these are identified as real people and companies, not just anonymous forum handles.
Let's hope MS does better with their new JEDI contract.
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posted on
01/22/2020 2:35:14 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Could be worse...
The Boston Glob, when it was owned by the NYT, once reused computer printouts of its credit card customers' info to wrap the hot off the presses bundles of its fishwrap, literally putting all that info out on the streets of greater Boston.
That was for a fairly limited time, not 14 years.
To: Pearls Before Swine
Someday a password manager company is going to be hacked. They have to be the juiciest targets around.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Someday a password manager company is going to be hacked. They have to be the juiciest targets around.I forgot the "/S". My bad.
To: dayglored
Aw, gee whiz, Mr Wilson
First, my complete Office of Personnel Mgmt info, back to ‘80 was stolen by the Chinese!
Then, it was Yahoo, and all my stuff there!
Then, it was Capital One!
Now, it is Microsoft!!!!!
To: dayglored
Most of those recorded sessions probably went something like this:
“First, is your computer plugged in? Second, have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete? Third, is your mouse plugged in?”
To: dayglored
"Let's hope MS does better with their new JEDI contract."
Exactly what I first thought.
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:09:01 PM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: dayglored
This probably really helped out those spammers from India who claim to be from Microsoft. If you could recite past info then it would add to their credibility.
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:13:27 PM PST
by
Revel
To: dayglored
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:21:55 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
To: dayglored
If you give any information to any company of significant size, you should expect that information will get out into the wild. Any promises of privacy or data protection are functionally unenforceable and moot once the data is out there.
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posted on
01/22/2020 3:21:59 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: dayglored; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
Yes, apparently Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey were in charge of Microsoft security.
PING!
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posted on
01/22/2020 4:43:58 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
haha, literally it's this one:
To better assist you, please answer the following questions:
1. Did you make any changes to the system prior to the issue?
2. Do you have any third party security software installed in the computer?
3. Was the scan completed successfully?
I suggest you to try scanning the drives for error by following the steps below and check again.
1. Press Windows key + E.
2. Click "This PC".
3. Right-click the drive that you want to check, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Tools tab, and then, under Error-checking, click Check now. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Depending on the size of your drive, this might take several minutes. For best results, don't use your computer for any other tasks while it is checking for errors.
Let us know the result.
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posted on
01/22/2020 5:39:02 PM PST
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: dayglored
Feeling happy I’ve never called Microsoft support.
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posted on
01/22/2020 5:40:34 PM PST
by
mlo
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I won’t use those for fear that it will get hacked someday. Just a matter of time.
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posted on
01/22/2020 5:50:08 PM PST
by
Engedi
(ui)
To: mlo
Over the years I’ve contacted them several times. The outfit I worked for had a natural Affinity for breaking things. We stumped them a few times.
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posted on
01/22/2020 5:57:24 PM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
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