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FILE - The Microsoft logo is seen in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France, April 12, 2016. In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday, April 2, 2024, saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack

A Biden administration-appointed review board has issued a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency

By FRANK BAJAK
Published - Apr 02, 2024, 10:03 PM ET
Last Updated - Apr 03, 2024, 01:20 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. 

The Cyber Safety Review Board, created in 2021 by executive order of President Joe Biden, describes shoddy cybersecurity practices, a lax corporate culture and a lack of sincerity about the company's knowledge of the targeted breach, which affected multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China.  

It concluded that “Microsoft's security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul" given the company's ubiquity and critical role in the global technology ecosystem. Microsoft products “underpin essential services that support national security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety.” 

The panel said the intrusion, discovered in June by the State Department and dating to May “was preventable and should never have occurred,” blaming its success on “a cascade of avoidable errors.” What's more, the board said, Microsoft, Inc. (MSFT) still doesn't know how the hackers got in. 

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