For most organizations – especially security vendors – disclosing a corporate email breach, in which executives’ internal messages and attachments were stolen, would noticeably ding their stock prices.
But Microsoft apparently doesn’t operate by the laws of Wall Street.
Late Friday afternoon, Redmond revealed that Russia’s Cozy Bear had, once again, broken into its network and stolen emails and files belonging to the tech titan’s leadership team, and cybersecurity and legal employees. According to Microsoft, the intrusion happened in late November 2023, and it only detected it on January 12.