Leveraging an unused account, the Russian APT Midnight Blizzard was able to pivot into Microsoft’s corporate Office 365 to access the emails of key executives and cyber-security employees. Midnight Blizzard was searching for what information Microsoft knew about themselves.

FTX, a crypto-currency exchange, found itself in bankruptcy. At the moment of the leadership transition, over $400 million in crypto-currency was transferred from FTX’s wallets. The FTX trustee management discovered many poor cloud practices during the unwinding process.