"Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission."
Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.”
DRAFTS?!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/
Jonathan
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2026-02-19 14:18:44 UTC
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