
The announcement comes six months after Microsoft launched passwordless accounts for business customers, yet the tech giant has been encouraging users to abandon passwords for a number of years now. There are a whopping 579 password attacks every second-that’s 18 billion every year.”

“Weak passwords are the entry point for the majority of attacks across enterprise and consumer accounts.

“That has stuck with me ever since I first heard him say it because it’s so true,” Jakkal stated in a company blog post.

Jakkal quoted his coworker and Microsoft CISO Bret Arsenault as saying: “hackers don’t break in, they log in.”
