autotldr t1_jebwj4r wrote
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
> A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft's Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results and access other Bing users' private information from the likes of Teams, Outlook, and Office 365.
> "A potential attacker could have influenced Bing search results and compromised Microsoft 365 emails and data of millions of people," Ami Luttwak, Wiz's chief technology officer, said to The Wall Street Journal.
> Bing has been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, surpassing a milestone of 100 million daily active users earlier this month following the launch of its AI-powered Bing Chat feature on February 7th. Had the issue not been patched a few days prior, Bing's explosive growth could have pushed the dangerous, highly accessible security exploit more widely to millions of users - according to Similarweb, Bing is the 30th most visited website in the world.
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