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Microsoft says it was hit by the SolarWinds cyberattack, but says 'we have not found evidence' that its products or customer data were affected

Microsoft said Thursday that it was hit by the sweeping SolarWinds cybersecurity hack, but denied a Reuters report that indicated that its products and services may have been compromised.

However, Microsoft did confirm that it found and removed elements of the SolarWind hack from its own system. "Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious SolarWinds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed," Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw said in an additional statement Thursday afternoon. "We have not found evidence of access to production services or customer data.

 

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