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With that logic just having your mail client/web mail parse a malicious mail from a nation-state level actor is enough to compromise your machine.



From the original article which that page links to [0]:

The breach centered around a hacker getting hold of a Microsoft customer support worker’s login credentials; from there, the hacker could dive into the content of any non-corporate Outlook, Hotmail, or MSN account

This is a security concern for any mail that an administrator can read, although it isn't at the same level as being compromised just through parsing an email.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwndwn/microsoft-outlook-...




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