Cybersecurity
Microsoft Hack Also Impacted VA, Global Media Agency
- US Agency for Global Media says data may have been stolen
- ‘Midnight Blizzard’ tied to Russian intelligence services
The US Department of Veterans Affairs and a US agency that provides news overseas are among a growing list of Microsoft Corp. customers that have acknowledged they were impacted by a breach of the technology giant that was blamed on Russian state-sponsored hackers.
The US Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency that provides news and information in countries where the press is restricted, was notified “a couple months ago” by Microsoft that some of its data may have been stolen, a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. No security or personally identifiable sensitive data was compromised, the spokesperson said.