Microsoft: 99.9% of people get hacked for one (ridiculous) reason

99.9 percent of compromised Microsoft accounts don't have multi-factor authentication enabled.



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99.9 percent of compromised Microsoft accounts don't have multi-factor authentication enabled.
1.2 million Microsoft accounts were compromised in January 2020.
Microsoft emphasized the risks of not using multi-factor authentication at the RSA security conference last week.


Around 1.2 million Microsoft accounts were compromised in just January 2020, and almost all of them could have been secured by enabling a single setting. According to Microsoft engineers, 99.9 percent of the compromised accounts they track do not use multi-factor authentication. Microsoft discussed account security and the risks of not using multi-factor authentication at the RSA security conference last week (via ZDNet).

At the RSA conference, Microsoft pointed out that it tracks more than 30 billion login events every day. On average, 0.5 percent of accounts get hacked, but with over one bill...