Microsoft's mistake exposes 250 million customer records.

In a recent blog post titled, "Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Database," Microsoft announced a massive database error that left around 250 million customer service and support records accessible to anyone with a web browser. Although the loophole has been closed and the company says it found no evidence of malicious use, this is a very alarming situation. Bob Diachenko, a security researcher, and Comparitech made...