Microsoft engineers have announced that 99.9% of the compromised accounts tracked monthly don’t use multi-factor authentication – the simplest solution to stop most automated account attacks.
According to their research, 30 billion login events are tracked each day from over one billion monthly active users. On average, 0.5% of all accounts get compromised monthly which also equals about 1.2 million users.
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