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16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

Summary

Security

Faav, with an assist from an AI hackbot he built called Antares, found he could access Titan’s API through an Azure Cloud Services host because Titan didn’t check the signature on a login token.

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The Registeras they published this story 7.6

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