Teenager reportedly hacks into Microsoft database with 17 trillion rows
Tom’s Hardware reports that the database held 25,000 user accounts. It says a custom AI bot and a lack of JWT token validation enabled the access, which earned the teenager a $5,000 bug bounty.
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Tom’s Hardware reports that a teenager hacked into a Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts. It attributes the access to a custom AI bot and a lack of JWT token validation, and says the teenager earned a $5,000 bug bounty.
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