how many accounts does microsoft outlook 2016 for mac support

According to Microsoft, between January 1, 2019, and March 29, 2019, a hacker, or group of hackers, compromised the account of a Microsoft support agent, one of the companys customer support representatives that handles technical complaints.

The OS maker said it disabled the compromised support agents credentials once it learned of the unauthorized intrusion; however, the company said there might be a possibility that the hacker accessed and viewed the content of some Outlook users accounts.

This unauthorized access could have allowed unauthorized parties to access andor view information related to your email account (such as your e-mail address, folder names, the subject lines of e-mails, and the names of other e-mail addresses you communicate with), but not the content of any e-mails or attachments, Microsoft said in the email sent to customers.

They can see how many emails you have, where the database lies, email content, last person you emailed, one former engineer told ZDNet via encrypted chat.

The company put the number at around six percent of the people who received an email notification.

In the meantime, the company is recommending that users who received the email about this recent breach change their Outlook.com credentials, out of caution, even if hackers did not access Outlook users passwords.

ZDNet understands that the incident only affected a small number of Microsoft Outlook users and that Microsoft has also increased detection and monitoring for the affected accounts, just to be sure theres no unauthorized access for those accounts.

TechCrunch first reported and confirmed the hack earlier today.

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How Many Accounts Does Microsoft Outlook 2016 For Mac Support