News that Chinese hackers exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint to hack into hundreds of businesses will have sent (another) shiver through C-suite group chats the world over. In the week since it emerged, it’s become clear that some 400 governments, corporations and institutions have been pole-axed by it, and Bloomberg’s team has been across all angles.
Most alarmingly, our journalists reported that this round of hacks included the US National Nuclear Security Administration – the body responsible for maintaining and designing the US’s cache of nuclear weapons. Even though classified information doesn’t appear to have been accessed, experts told our team that information about employees could nonetheless be exploited.
