September 24, 2021

Microsoft Exchange Bug Leaks 100,000 Windows Domain Credentials

Gillian Sweny

Director of Marketing, AgileBlue

Microsoft Exchange Bug Leaks 100

Microsoft Exchange’s Autodiscover protocol leaked approximately 100,000 login names and passwords for Windows domains worldwide as a result to an unpatched design flaw in the implementation.

The Exchange Audiodiscover service enables users to configure applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, with minimal user input. This allows a combination of email addresses and passwords to be utilized to retrieve other predefined settings required to set up their email clients.

Read more on the leak here.

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