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40 Of Microsoft's Customers Impacted By SolarWinds Hack Most of the Microsoft
customers hit by the hack were in the U.S., but the rest were elsewhere in North
America and in Europe and the Middle East.


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MICROSOFT SAYS 40 CUSTOMERS HIT BY ONGOING HACK OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

December 18, 20205:39 AM ET

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Microsoft President Brad Smith said the hack into IT management firm SolarWinds
affected dozens of Microsoft's customers.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith has called the ever-growing hacking campaign into
a U.S. tech firm that was discovered this week "a moment of reckoning."

"This is not 'espionage as usual,' even in the digital age. Instead, it
represents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological
vulnerability for the United States and the world," he wrote in a blog post
Thursday.

Smith said 40 of Microsoft's customers were also hit by the breach because they
had the SolarWinds software targeted by suspected Russian hackers. At least 80%
of customers were in the U.S., but the rest were in Canada, Mexico, Belgium,
Spain, the U.K., Israel and the United Arab Emirates. He said he expects the
number of victims to grow.

"In effect, this is not just an attack on specific targets, but on the trust and
reliability of the world's critical infrastructure in order to advance one
nation's intelligence agency," Smith wrote.

So far, least six federal agencies are known to have been hit by the suspected
Russian hack into the IT company, Politico wrote Thursday. The scope of the
breach is still being uncovered, with the Energy Department and National Nuclear
Security Administration the latest reported victims of the cyberattack.

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SolarWinds provided IT management services to at least 17,000 customers that
included private firms as well as the U.S. government. The ongoing attack is
believed to have started in March and went undetected for several months.

In his post, Smith stressed the broader implications of the breach: "The attack
unfortunately represents a broad and successful espionage-based assault on both
the confidential information of the U.S. Government and the tech tools used by
firms to protect them."

The tech leader said the attack highlights how desperately the U.S. government
and the private tech sector, as well as the global community, must join forces
to respond to cyberattacks in an organized, coordinated fashion.

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