Sen. Ron Wyden wants feds to investigate Microsoft for cyber failings enabling Chinese hack
Sen. Ron Wyden wants federal investigators to probe Microsoft’s cybersecurity services that the Oregon Democrat said enabled a China-linked hack of the Biden administration.
China-based cyberattackers stole email data in a hacking campaign this year directed at the U.S. government that disrupted the Commerce Department, according to government officials and Microsoft.
As federal officials investigate those breaches, Mr. Wyden said Microsoft deserves most of the blame. He contended that in a letter to federal agencies last week requesting they hold the Big Tech company accountable.
“While Microsoft’s engineers should never have deployed systems that violated such basic cybersecurity principles, these obvious flaws should have been caught by Microsoft’s internal and external security audits,” the senator wrote. “That these flaws were not detected raises questions about what other serious cybersecurity defects these auditors also missed.”
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