Microsoft confirms hacker group Lapsus$ breached its systems


The software giant had been tracking the activities of Lapsus$ for several weeks and provided some details on the methods of its attacks in a blog post late Tuesday. — AFP

Microsoft Corp said that the hacker group Lapsus$ gained “limited access” to its systems, following a claim by the group that it obtained source code for the Bing search engine and Cortana voice assistant.

The software giant had been tracking the activities of Lapsus$ – which it labels a “large-scale social engineering and extortion campaign” – for several weeks and provided some details on the methods of its attacks in a blog post late Tuesday.

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