Microsoft hid the hacking of data in 2013

Not only is Yahoo the Fortune 500 company hiding the data leak.

Four and a half years ago, Microsoft was in a similar situation when a "very complicated hacker group" had hacked data to track their patches and reported bugs, though it had never been published until today. now on.

This Windows database contains information about critical vulnerabilities that have not been patched on some of the software used by many people, including Microsoft's Windows operating system.

5 former Microsoft employees told Reuters that MIcrosoft had silently handled the case, fixed errors and vulnerabilities in the database that were hacked to prevent hackers from taking advantage.

The person behind the hack

The data hacking was done by a famous hacker group specializing in hacking tech companies in Silicon Valley, having high skills and many names like Morpho, Jripbot, ZeroWing, Sphinx Moth, Butterfly and Wild Neutron. They are also the team that exploited the zero-day JAVA vulnerability to hack Macs that Microsoft employees use.

How to deal with Microsoft

The hack was discovered in February 2013. A few weeks later, Microsoft admitted to leaking data but said the attacker was restricted to network access.

Before the general situation, each company has different ways of handling

'As Facebook and Apple have said, Microsoft confirmed we had a security problem,' Microsoft said in a statement. 'Some computers, including some Macs, are infected with malicious code like some other companies. There is no evidence of customer data being affected and we are still investigating. '

Mozilla has a better way to solve the problem

Microsoft is not the only company leaking information about vulnerabilities and reporting errors. Mozilla also fell into a similar situation in 2015 but they decided to say the whole thing.

Kaspersky also acknowledged being attacked by Duqu 2.0 APT. Bitdefender also suffered data leaks in 2015.