Hacker Discloses Personal Information of Thousands of Nokia and Microsoft Employees

TapTechNews July 14th news, the security website HackRead recently disclosed that a hacker with the code name 888 has announced in the dark web the personal information of thousands (9305) of Nokia and Microsoft employees, and the hacker claims that these data all come from the third-party partners of these two companies.

TapTechNews learned that the CSV file related to Nokia released by the hacker contains the personal privacy information of 7258 Nokia employees, involving employee job titles, full names, company names, countries/regions/states, mobile phone numbers, and email addresses. The time points of these information range from June 2022 to February 2023. Compared to Nokia's 86900 global employees, the leaked scale accounts for about 8.3% of the total number of Nokia employees..

As for the leaked file related to Microsoft, it covers 2047 Microsoft employees, involving job titles, names, countries/states/cities, LinkedIn profile cards, mobile phone numbers, and email addresses. Currently, the total number of Microsoft employees is about 144,000, and this leak event accounts for about 1.4% of the total number of Microsoft employees.

The security company said that although the relevant leaked files do not contain confidential information such as passwords or payments, but the relevant data may be used by hackers for social engineering or phishing attacks..