Microsoft Loses Critical Security Logs - Here's How It Could Impact You

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) has reportedly lost log data for several of its crucial security products, which could potentially affect customers’ ability to detect threats and generate security alerts.

What Happened: Microsoft experienced a failure in consistently collecting log data for a number of its vital cloud services. Logs, which document events within a program like account sign-ins, play a pivotal role in identifying unauthorized network and account access. The absence of proper recording could lead to missed potential intrusion instances.

As per the report by Business Insider, from September 2-19, a bug in a Microsoft internal monitoring agent caused a malfunction in uploading log data ...

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