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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
https://threatpost.com/microsoft-250m-customer-service-records-open/152086/ "Misconfigured Microsoft cloud databases containing 14 years of customer support logs exposed 250 million records to the open internet for 25 days. The account info dates back as far as 2005 and is as recent as December 2019 ¡X and exposes Microsoft customers to phishing and tech scams." -- PS: What's a "tech" scam? |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote: PS: What's a "tech" scam? The "Microsoft Tech Support" calls (mostly from Asia) about your system reporting stuff to Microsoft. Then they have you look at normal stuff you don't understand in order to get you to pay them $$$ to "fix" what is not broken. They might also install back doors and malware on your system so they can rip you off multiple times. |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:04:47 +0000, Jim H wrote:
My guy was going to come over here and kill me and my family Wow. That is important! My Indian guy also threatened to do all sorts of horrible things to both my mother and my sisters. I'm not joking. They made threats against my family, like the mafia does. What I don't get is how ANGRY they get when they're the ones trying to pull a fast one over us. As in your situation, they were vicious. But why? I don't know why. a. Maybe that's just how people are in India proper? (dunno) b. Maybe they're people selected who want to "clinch the deal"? c. Maybe they're being paid by the victim, so they lost money? Dunno. But, as in your case, they were really vicious, even as I, like you, played dumb for most of the beginning (I was dual booted to Linux at the time, so I was also trying to guess what the results should have been when they walked me through the steps). The vitriol was three things: a. Aimed at my own family (like how I would think the mafia works) b. Sexually charged against the females of my family c. Seemingly out of place given I wasn't the one who called them It was shocking, not for the fact I was worried; but for the fact that I wondered ever since what kind of person is like them. So it's good to know your guy _also_ spewed hateful vitriol, as if I was trying to scam someone, I'd just cut my losses and hang up instead of wasting minutes spewing sexually charged threats against someone's family. |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
Arlen Holder wrote:
It was shocking, not for the fact I was worried; but for the fact that I wondered ever since what kind of person is like them. They're on commission. And they only hire choir boys. "OK, now let me hear you swear like a sailor..." "You'll do." Paul |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 03:37:42 -0500, Paul wrote:
They're on commission. Thanks Paul. It was amazing how evil they were. I like your sailor's characterization of how they choose 'em. |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On 24/01/2020 09.37, Paul wrote:
Arlen Holder wrote: It was shocking, not for the fact I was worried; but for the fact that I wondered ever since what kind of person is like them. They're on commission. And they only hire choir boys. "OK, now let me hear you swear like a sailor..." "You'll do." When they start the call and say the thing about M$ support, I explode into a laugh, which leaves them bewildered; then I hang or they hang. I don't bother to argue with them. I don't even bother to tell them I'm running Linux, so I know their claims are false :-D The funny thing is that they are calling Spain. If I answer in Spanish they ask if I talk English. I suspect they are using the phone number list, where they may see that my surname is English, and that they are going after expats here. The chaps that make the calling are possibly hired for a job on commission. If you play them, they are of course loosing money, so they get angry at you. They could get fired, too. After all, they need food, as everybody. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC),
Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. https://threatpost.com/microsoft-250m-customer-service-records-open/152086/ "Misconfigured Microsoft cloud databases containing 14 years of customer support logs exposed 250 million records to the open internet for 25 days. The account info dates back as far as 2005 and is as recent as December 2019 ¡X and exposes Microsoft customers to phishing and tech scams." |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:59:34 -0500, micky
wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. 3 Texas football fields? It's almost the population of the US. Texas public school math? OK, I understand. []'s https://threatpost.com/microsoft-250m-customer-service-records-open/152086/ "Misconfigured Microsoft cloud databases containing 14 years of customer support logs exposed 250 million records to the open internet for 25 days. The account info dates back as far as 2005 and is as recent as December 2019 ¡X and exposes Microsoft customers to phishing and tech scams." -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
Shadow wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:59:34 -0500, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. 3 Texas football fields? It's almost the population of the US. Texas public school math? OK, I understand. []'s I'm not sure, but I think the pun is in reading the 'M' as 'meter' ('metre'). 3 football fields - assuming American football - is 300 yards, i.e. about 273 meter/metre. So did this this Dutchie get the American pun or not!? :-) |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On 25 Jan 2020 18:31:31 GMT, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Frank Slootweg
wrote: Shadow wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:59:34 -0500, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. 3 Texas football fields? It's almost the population of the US. Texas public school math? OK, I understand. []'s I'm not sure, but I think the pun is in reading the 'M' as 'meter' ('metre'). 3 football fields - assuming American football - is 300 yards, i.e. about 273 meter/metre. So did this this Dutchie get the American pun or not!? :-) (*golf clap*) Good work sir. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On 25 Jan 2020 18:31:31 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote: Shadow wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:59:34 -0500, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. 3 Texas football fields? It's almost the population of the US. Texas public school math? OK, I understand. []'s I'm not sure, but I think the pun is in reading the 'M' as 'meter' ('metre'). 3 football fields - assuming American football - is 300 yards, i.e. about 273 meter/metre. So did this this Dutchie get the American pun or not!? :-) What's a yard? Just joking. I'm Brazilian. I thought he misread the M as "Mil" = a thousand. 250M Customer Service Records is a LOT. Imagine what the scammers will do with that. "Hello, this is M$ Support. Mr. John Doe, Date of birth xxx, social security number xxx, credit card number xxx, address xxx, Win X serial number xxx, (or whatever leaked) we have detected malware on your computer. Please open a remote desktop session so we can correct the problem". Hope the leak made the headlines non-tech people read. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:15:54 -0600, Zaghadka
wrote: On 25 Jan 2020 18:31:31 GMT, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Frank Slootweg wrote: Shadow wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:59:34 -0500, micky wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:32:38 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote: o Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web That's less than 3 football fields. Let's not make mountains out of molehills. 3 Texas football fields? It's almost the population of the US. Texas public school math? OK, I understand. []'s I'm not sure, but I think the pun is in reading the 'M' as 'meter' ('metre'). 3 football fields - assuming American football - is 300 yards, i.e. about 273 meter/metre. So did this this Dutchie get the American pun or not!? :-) Yes, you got it right. (*golf clap*) What's a golf clap? A very quiet one, to not bother the pro golfer? Good work sir. |
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[Semi OT]Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:20:48 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, micky
wrote: (*golf clap*) What's a golf clap? A very quiet one, to not bother the pro golfer? It is a gentle, respectful clap. And yes, it's the sort of reserved response that is used to not distract the other golfers on the course. In this case, I meant "Well done, man." Respectful and reserved is the thing I was going for. Not enough of it these days. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
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