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But we're not talking about a service outage. In the context of an outage at a service provider I might agree with you.

In this instance, a system used by the cybersecurity team to do its actual job was breached - not some development or testing server.

We don't know what it was exactly that these attackers were looking for or what they found. But it is absolutely possible that the information they gained enables them to protect an ongoing or future attack against Microsoft's customers.




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