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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFTMore than a dozen Texas government agencies and public universities have reported that their emails have been accessed by the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Subject.
Bloomberg said, according to the source, that the agencies that Microsoft (MSFT) warned include the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, the Texas General Land Office, and the Texas Securities Board.
According to Bloomberg, Steve Baer, an official with the Texas Department of Information Resources, acknowledged on Friday that the government emails had been exposed, but He said So far, it seems to be just routine administrative communications.
Microsoft (MSFT) did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Seeking Alpha. The agencies listed above also did not respond to multiple requests, except for the Texas Workforce Commission, which we were unable to reach.
Midnight Blizzard gained access to communications between Microsoft (MSFT) and Texas organizations as part of a broader nation-state attack on the tech giant’s systems. a statement By the company in January.
Later in March, Microsoft (MSFT) provided another update saying it had seen “evidence that Midnight Blizzard” was “using information initially extracted from the company’s email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access.”
“Midnight Blizzard is clearly trying to use secrets of various kinds that it has found. Some of these secrets were shared between customers and Microsoft via email, and as we discovered in our leaked email, we have reached out and continue to reach out to these customers to help them with their leaked email,” the company said at the time. Take mitigation measures.”
Bloomberg News earlier this week on Thursday mentioned Microsoft (MSFT) has begun notifying more customers that a Russian hacking group has accessed their emails.