In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

[Kent Sharkey]

Ars Technica[^]:

How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?

Testing, testing. One, two, boom

I apologize to the Microsoft management that I thought were to blame.

[obermd]

More likely someone who was fired from Microsoft's QA teams simply didn't bother to close that account. This would be a way to legally get back at a company for firing them.