Azure Database Service Flaw Could Affect Thousands of Firms

Wiz says the vulnerability, discovered two weeks ago, enabled researchers to gain unrestricted access to the accounts and databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers. On Thursday – the same day Wiz published its blog post describing the vulnerability – Microsoft sent an email to its cloud computing customers, stating that it had been made aware of vulnerability on Aug. 12 and took steps to mitigate it, Wiz reports. “We are not aware of any data access because of this vulnerability,” said the note, a screenshot of which was tweeted by Wiz cloud security researcher Sagi Tzadik.