Listening to the cybersecurity person interviewed here play down the significance, one is left to possibly believe cybersecurity folks rely on Microsoft to keep them employed.
According to this podcast, the only reason the government discovered this breach is because they were paying Microsoft for the "privilege" to see who was accessing their email. Most customers were not paying thus would never have discovered similar unwanted access.
If charging for this transparency is a "business model", as the podcast suggests, and there were only a relatively small number of "customers", it really makes one wonder. How much money were they making from this "business model".
Listening to the cybersecurity person interviewed here play down the significance, one is left to possibly believe cybersecurity folks rely on Microsoft to keep them employed.
According to this podcast, the only reason the government discovered this breach is because they were paying Microsoft for the "privilege" to see who was accessing their email. Most customers were not paying thus would never have discovered similar unwanted access.
If charging for this transparency is a "business model", as the podcast suggests, and there were only a relatively small number of "customers", it really makes one wonder. How much money were they making from this "business model".