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A global wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in January 2021 after four zero-day exploits were discovered in on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers, administrator privileges on the server, and access to connected devices on the same network.
Microsoft named Hafnium as the group responsible for the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and alleged they were "state-sponsored and operating out of China". [3] [4] According to Microsoft, they are based in China but primarily use United States–based virtual private servers, [6] and have targeted "infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense ...
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
Multiple mishaps, including the crash of an internal Microsoft system in April 2021 and the hack of the engineer, gave the Chinese hackers coveted access to a cryptographic key that was later used ...
The University of Minnesota on Thursday confirmed that a hacker "likely gained unauthorized access" to three decades worth of sensitive information pertaining to applicants, students and employees.
"a small subset of Exchange components" None of the Microsoft repositories contained production credentials. [57] The repositories were secured in December, and those attacks ceased in January. [57] However, in March 2021 more than 20,000 US organizations were compromised through a back door that was installed via flaws in Exchange Server. [58]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says it was notified of a data breach by IT contractor CGI Federal. The GAO said that about 6,000 people, "primarily current and former GAO employees from ...
Reports indicated that within hours of the attack, the company paid a ransom of nearly 75 Bitcoins ($4.4 million USD) in exchange for a decryption tool. However, the tool was reportedly slow, and the company's business continuity measures proved more effective in restoring operations. [23] [24]