Microsoft admits Outlook.com hackers were able to access emails

Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed. The software maker started notifying some Outlook.com users late on Friday night that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. Microsoft’s notification revealed that hackers could have viewed account email addresses, folder names, and subject lines of emails, but in a separate notification to other affected users the company also admitted email contents could have been viewed.

Vice’s Motherboard revealed on Sunday that Microsoft has sent a different notification message to around 6 percent of the affected Outlook.com accounts, and that the company only admitted this when it was presented with screenshot…

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