Microsoft had to warn a subset of Office 365 administrators over the weekend that their organisation might have inadvertently featured in an outsider's internal search results.
Register reader Dusty shared the notification, which read: "Under extremely rare circumstances, users performing internal search queries may have received search results from another organization."
Yowzer. That is quite the blunder.
The notification went on to explain: "At no time were the files that were displayed accessible to the user who received the incorrect search results."
Thank heavens for small mercies. The warning added that refreshing the page or performing "any other actions" removed the incorrect data and replaced it with the correct results from the search query.
Kind of like an Office 365 version of Chatroulette. You never know what you might see. Hit refresh and the horror is gone.
The notification ..
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