Non-paywalled[uk.finance.yahoo.com].

I mean that seems reasonable. Strictly speaking nobody is allowed to be using pirated software, and especially not government officials working with sensitive data. Those people need to get their software through absolutely secure channels, and the government ought to have a mass licensing agreement. If a government employee pirated the software through some sketchy site

He might also blame Bill Gates 'cause it looks like a software vulnerability exploit.

Yeah, I know Bill is not in charge of Microsoft anymore, but does Donald Trump?

Could it have happened? Yes, sure.
Did it really happen? I don't know.
I only know that "Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The U.S. Energy Department, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to request for comments from Reuters" (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-nuclear-weapons-agency-breached-microsoft-sharepoint-hack-bloomberg-news-2025-07-23/)

That being said, sticking to what Bloomberg reported:
- No sensitive or classified information is known to have been compromised in the attack
- The department was minimally impacted due to its widespread use of the Microsoft M365 cloud and very capable cybersecurity systems. A very small number of systems were impacted. All impacted systems are being restored
- Microsoft has blamed Chinese state-sponsored hackers for the attacks
- In addition to the Energy Department, the hackers have broken into systems belonging to national governments in Europe and the Middle East, the US Education Department, Florida’s Department of Revenue and the Rhode Island General Assembly
- Microsoft, in a blog post Tuesday, identified two groups supported by the Chinese government, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, as leveraging flaws in the SharePoint software

So yes, absolutely, the blame for this entire matter should be put on the hackers.
Still as they didn't get access to any sensitive data - which I'd be very surprised to know had been stored on Share Point in the first place (and would then become the fault of the individual putting those there in the first place, and the manager allowing it), chances that this will escalate to a nuclear war are non-existant

Originally posted by Immortalis:

Could it have happened? Yes, sure.
Did it really happen? I don't know.
I only know that "Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The U.S. Energy Department, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to request for comments from Reuters" (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-nuclear-weapons-agency-breached-microsoft-sharepoint-hack-bloomberg-news-2025-07-23/)

That being said, sticking to what Bloomberg reported:
- No sensitive or classified information is known to have been compromised in the attack
- The department was minimally impacted due to its widespread use of the Microsoft M365 cloud and very capable cybersecurity systems. A very small number of systems were impacted. All impacted systems are being restored
- Microsoft has blamed Chinese state-sponsored hackers for the attacks
- In addition to the Energy Department, the hackers have broken into systems belonging to national governments in Europe and the Middle East, the US Education Department, Florida’s Department of Revenue and the Rhode Island General Assembly
- Microsoft, in a blog post Tuesday, identified two groups supported by the Chinese government, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, as leveraging flaws in the SharePoint software

So yes, absolutely, the blame for this entire matter should be put on the hackers.
Still as they didn't get access to any sensitive data - which I'd be very surprised to know had been stored on Share Point in the first place (and would then become the fault of the individual putting those there in the first place, and the manager allowing it), chances that this will escalate to a nuclear war are non-existant

Wouldn't surprise me if it was DOGE who was responsible.

Originally posted by Crystal Sharrd:

Originally posted by Immortalis:

Could it have happened? Yes, sure.
Did it really happen? I don't know.
I only know that "Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The U.S. Energy Department, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to request for comments from Reuters" (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-nuclear-weapons-agency-breached-microsoft-sharepoint-hack-bloomberg-news-2025-07-23/)

That being said, sticking to what Bloomberg reported:
- No sensitive or classified information is known to have been compromised in the attack
- The department was minimally impacted due to its widespread use of the Microsoft M365 cloud and very capable cybersecurity systems. A very small number of systems were impacted. All impacted systems are being restored
- Microsoft has blamed Chinese state-sponsored hackers for the attacks
- In addition to the Energy Department, the hackers have broken into systems belonging to national governments in Europe and the Middle East, the US Education Department, Florida’s Department of Revenue and the Rhode Island General Assembly
- Microsoft, in a blog post Tuesday, identified two groups supported by the Chinese government, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, as leveraging flaws in the SharePoint software

So yes, absolutely, the blame for this entire matter should be put on the hackers.
Still as they didn't get access to any sensitive data - which I'd be very surprised to know had been stored on Share Point in the first place (and would then become the fault of the individual putting those there in the first place, and the manager allowing it), chances that this will escalate to a nuclear war are non-existant

Wouldn't surprise me if it was DOGE who was responsible.

It would certainly surprise anyone who knows how computers work and what DOGE was actually doing. It wouldn't surprise people looking for any excuse to whine about DOGE in defense of bureaucracy though.

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

Originally posted by Crystal Sharrd:

Wouldn't surprise me if it was DOGE who was responsible.

It would certainly surprise anyone who knows how computers work and what DOGE was actually doing. It wouldn't surprise people looking for any excuse to whine about DOGE in defense of bureaucracy though.

A DOGE employee was caught hosting malware on GitHub designed to steal files from the NLRB, and there were reports of Russian IP addresses attempting to login with DOGE credentials. 🤷‍♀️
Also that rogue e-mail server.
DOGE is a bureaucracy that threatens democracy.

...Microsoft SharePoint...

Sounds like they over-shared 🤣

Originally posted by WarHeRo:

Will Trump blame the nuclear war on pirates?



Bloomberg News reports
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/us-nuclear-weapons-agency-breached-in-microsoft-sharepoint-hack

Imo sounds like a hit & run to measure response times and which defenses are in place + other valuable info. Or a misdirection, "we're totally using this vector of attack look here please "

https://adigitalboom.com/news/germany-begins-government-wide-exit-from-microsoft-software/

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/french-schools-office-365-google-workspace-ban-privacy-gdpr

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

(The list does go on...)

Even YouTubers, semi-smart human beings, are ditching Windows and Microsoft.
OnlyOffice, Collabora, LibreOffice, all offer a more stable and universally compatible solution than Microshit Office.

Big Techs and monopolies are a very grave issue. Capitalism should promote diversity, competition and inovation. If cartels and monopolies form, its a stalemate for inovation and quality steeply drops as the main occupation becomes lock-ins and abusive contracts.

The globalist left have fooled the weak minded into thinking this is what Capitalism should look like. Its not!

The more high-tech the security, the more mundane the breach.

Originally posted by Moacir Santos:

https://adigitalboom.com/news/germany-begins-government-wide-exit-from-microsoft-software/

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/french-schools-office-365-google-workspace-ban-privacy-gdpr

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

(The list does go on...)

Even YouTubers, semi-smart human beings, are ditching Windows and Microsoft.
OnlyOffice, Collabora, LibreOffice, all offer a more stable and universally compatible solution than Microshit Office.

Big Techs and monopolies are a very grave issue. Capitalism should promote diversity, competition and inovation. If cartels and monopolies form, its a stalemate for inovation and quality steeply drops as the main occupation becomes lock-ins and abusive contracts.

The globalist left have fooled the weak minded into thinking this is what Capitalism should look like. Its not!

Capitalism is the reason you have LibreOffice as that option people are ditching Microsoft Office for. If we lived in a country where government controlled such things, you'd have one option, and one only. No competition, no alternative. You'd be offered an opportunity to buy a license for Office, or have nothing at all. Thank capitalism we have those very alternatives you speak of.