Bloomberg predicted a global crisis due to Microsoft software vulnerability

More than 60,000 organizations around the world have been hacked due to a vulnerability in Microsoft's Exchange Server software, Bloomberg writes, citing a former high-ranking US official.

According to the source of the agency, hackers continue to infect as many computers as possible before the company can completely secure all of its customers.

If the number of hacked users increases, it will be possible to talk about a global crisis in the field of cybersecurity, he argues.

The White House said that they take seriously this threat, which not only persists, but also develops.

The company announced the attack on the popular mail server Microsoft Exchange Server on March 2. According to her, hackers from the Hafnium group, associated with the Chinese government, were involved in the hack. China has denied these allegations.

Microsoft released an emergency update, but as of March 5, it was installed on only 10% of the devices that were attacked.

• In December, the American media learned about a large-scale cyber attack on US government agencies through SolarWinds software. It affected , among other things, the State Department, the ministries of finance, trade and energy, and partly the Pentagon. According to The Washington Post, the Cozy Bear group (also known as APT29), which is associated with the Russian intelligence services of the FSB and SVR, was behind the attack. Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement in the hacker attack.