The research team at vpnMentor, who discovered the data, believes that it belongs to Microsoft as some of the files appeared to originate from a series of pitches made to Microsoft Dynamics
Recently vpnMentor’s research team led by Noam Rotem uncovered a data breach that may presumably be owned by one of the biggest companies in the world; Microsoft.
The breach exposed sensitive internal data that was stored on a misconfigured Microsoft Azure cloud storage account. The data included files that appeared to originate from a series of pitches made to Microsoft Dynamics from numerous companies vying for a project or partnership with the company.
Screenshots from leaked pitches made to Microsoft (Image: vpnMentor)
Many of the pitches included the source codes for the software products – some of which were eventually released to the market. This led to the highly sensitive internal data of some well-known companies being exposed and information about their operations and product lines publicly accessible.
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The total size of the data breach is 63GB with a suspected number of files being more than 3,800. The date of the breach being discovered was 7th January 2021 and it was secured by 23rd February 2021.
The platform on which these files were being stored, Azure Blob Storage, is a popular form of cloud storage developed by the tech giant for large ..
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