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Department of Homeland Security headquarters, several of its agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services have been hacked as part of a wider breach of Microsoft SharePoint.
The incident has reportedly impacted the servers of federal agencies, schools, and energy companies. Some emergency patches have been deployed. On July 19, Microsoft alerted users that it was experiencing an active cyberattack on its SharePoint servers,
Microsoft Corp. is investigating its early alert system leak, to analyze any exploitation done by the Chinese hackers.
Microsoft issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in its SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some federal agencies.
Multiple hacking groups—including state actors from China—have targeted a vulnerability in older, on-premises versions of the file-sharing tool after a flawed attempt to patch it.
A massive Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability has reportedly exposed over 400 organizations—including the U.S. nuclear watchdog—to Chinese state-backed hackers, escalating global cybersecurity and geopolitical tensions.