HPE says it was hacked by Russian group behind Microsoft email breach
Reading Time: 2 minutesHewlett Packard Enterprise said on Wednesday that its cloud-based email system was compromised by Midnight Blizzard, a Russia-linked hacking group that recently broke into Microsoft’s corporate network.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the enterprise tech giant said it was notified on December 12 that Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear, had breached its cloud-based email environment.
Midnight Blizzard is a notorious hacking group that is widely believed to be sponsored by the Russian government. The hackers have been linked to a number of high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2016 breach of the Democratic National Committee and the SolarWinds attack in 2019.
The company said in its SEC filing that the breach is likely related to an earlier Midnight Blizzard attack that saw the group exfiltrate ‘a limited number of SharePoint files’ from HPE’s network in May 2023, an incident the company learned about in June 2023.
News of the HPE breach comes just days after Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard hackers had breached some corporate email accounts, including those of the company’s ‘senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions.’ According to the tech giant, the hacking group used a password spray attack — where a bad actor tries the same password on multiple accounts — on a legacy account to access targeted email accounts containing information related to Midnight Blizzard itself.
It’s not yet known whether the HPE and Microsoft incidents are linked.
Ref: techcrunch
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