In a sobering update released March 8th, Microsoft has revealed that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard, also tracked as Nobelium, has gained unauthorized access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems. This follows an initial breach of Microsoft’s corporate email systems detected in January 2024.
According to the Microsoft Security Response Center’s blog post, the tech giant recently observed: “Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access. This has included access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems.”
