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  • Microsoft said- 4.4 crore users used hacked username-password


    Microsoft revealed that about 4.4 crore of its users are using hacked passwords and user names for login.


    Microsoft said- 4.4 crore users used hacked username-password



    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. In 2016, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue (currently Alphabet/Google has more revenue). The word "Microsoft" is a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software". Microsoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.


    Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. Microsoft said- 4.4 crore users used hacked username-password


    Microsoft revealed that about 4.4 crore of its users are using hacked passwords and user names for login. This flaw came to light when Microsoft's research team conducted data analysis. The team scanned the account between January and March. It turned out that these accounts are using hacked passwords and usernames on Azure and other similar platforms. Microsoft said- 4.4 crore users used hacked password-username



    According to a PC Mag report, the company's research team matched the database of more than 3 billion passwords and user names leaked in 2019. In this, the accounts of more than 4.4 crore users were matched with it. The company said that users whose accounts were matched, were asked to reset the password. hacked password



    99.9% hacking failed by MFA


    Microsoft said - The number of hacked accounts shows that 99.9% of hacking was thwarted through multi-factor authentication (MFA). We told users that MFA is an important system for online account security. We suggested users to strengthen the password. Many users' passwords were weak.











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