Bing has become the target of a massive hacker attack

Bulletin

24. 9. 2020

Bing search engine is on iOS and Android faced a problem. Data stored on servers Microsoftu was unsecured from September 10 to 16. During this time, according to cyber security company WizCase, several attacks were launched on the servers, during which 6,5 TB of data was stolen. Fortunately, no sensitive user data was involved. It mainly concerned search terms, location data (if allowed in the application), search time and data about the operating system of the device.

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