Federal report says ‘cascade of errors’ by tech giant let Chinese operators break into senior government officials’ email accounts
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior US officials including commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo.
It said Microsoft’s CEO and board should institute “rapid cultural change” including publicly sharing “a plan with specific timelines to make fundamental, security-focused reforms across the company and its full suite of products”. The board, convened by homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in August, accused Microsoft of making inaccurate public statements about the incident, including issuing a statement saying it believed it had determined the likely root cause of the intrusion “when, in fact, it still has not”. Microsoft did not update that misleading blog post, published in September, until mid-March after the board repeatedly asked if it planned to issue a correction, it said.
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