Microsoft Source Code Worth 37GB Allegedly Leaked By Hackers.
Microsoft is allegedly dealing with a fresh cyber attack. The culprit: Lapsus$. The group claims to have leaked the source code for Bing, Cortana, and other projects stolen from Microsoft’s internal Azure DevOps server.
Backing up this claim, the hackers posted a screenshot to their Telegram channel on Sunday, indicating that they hacked Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server containing source code for Bing, Cortana, and various other internal projects.
On Monday night, they posted a torrent for a 9 GB 7zip archive containing the source code of over 250 projects that they say belong to Microsoft. Upon closer inspections, reports have it that the uncompressed archive contains approximately 37GB of source code allegedly belonging to Microsoft.
Experts say the claim seems legit as the files appear to be legitimate internal source code the said company.
Did Microsoft Lose Its Source code?
Reports claim that some of the leaked projects contained emails and documentation that were clearly used internally by Microsoft engineers to publish mobile apps.
These projects were to be for web-based infrastructure, websites, or mobile apps, with no source code for Microsoft desktop software released, including Windows, Windows Server, and Microsoft Office. However, Microsoft said they are still investigating the claims.
More on Lapsus$
Lapsus$ has confirmed attacks against NVIDIA, Samsung, Vodafone, Ubisoft, and Mercado Libre. The group is a data extortion hacking group that compromises corporate systems to steal source code, customer lists, databases, and other valuable data. They then attempt to extort the victim with ransom demands not publicly to leak the data.
The team is said to have a network of insiders in these organizations and the latest hack could have been facilitated by one of the moles. Lapsus$, have grown a large following on Telegram, with over 33,000 subscribers on their main channel, and over 8,000 on their chat channel.
The extortion group uses their very active Telegram channels to announce new leaks, attacks, and to chat with their fans, and they seem to be enjoying the notoriety.
