Microsoft has rejected the assertions made by “Anonymous Sudan,” a hacktivist group, that they breached the company’s servers and obtained credentials for 30 million customer accounts. Anonymous Sudan, known for their disruptive DDoS attacks, has previously targeted Western entities. While Microsoft acknowledged that Anonymous Sudan was responsible for service disruptions in June, they firmly denied any evidence of a legitimate data breach or compromise of customer data.
Anonymous Sudan claimed to have successfully hacked Microsoft and accessed a vast database containing millions of Microsoft account details, which they offered for sale at $50,000. They provided a sample of the data as proof of the breach, though its origin couldn’t be verified.
BleepingComputer contacted Microsoft for comment, and a company spokesperson firmly denied the data breach claims, stating that their analysis indicated the claims were not legitimate and that no evidence of customer data being accessed or compromised was found.
The status of Microsoft’s investigation into the matter remains unclear, as does the company’s response to the potential public release of the alleged data. Microsoft’s denial raises doubts about the hacktivist group’s claims and suggests that the situation might be an aggregation of data rather than a genuine breach.
