{"id":19691,"date":"2025-08-09T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/microsoft-investigates-israeli-militarys-use-of-azure-cloud-storage\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:37:24","slug":"microsoft-investigates-israeli-militarys-use-of-azure-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/microsoft-investigates-israeli-militarys-use-of-azure-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft investigates Israeli military\u2019s use of Azure cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns that tech company\u2019s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> is investigating how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\">Israel<\/a>\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company\u2019s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.<\/p>\n<p>Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud\">a Guardian investigation <\/a>revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/09\/microsoft-israeli-military-azure-cloud-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/93601beac83821203cd77c35f9f8a4627ae9a6a8\/444_0_6827_5464\/master\/6827.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d82260482dee15936a236c82b2c2e4f0\" title=\"Microsoft investigates Israeli military\u2019s use of Azure cloud storage\" \/>Concerns that tech company\u2019s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is investigating how Israel\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company\u2019s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.<br \/>\nSenior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a Guardian investigation revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns that tech company\u2019s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation Microsoft is investigating how Israel\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company\u2019s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects. Senior executives are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/microsoft-investigates-israeli-militarys-use-of-azure-cloud-storage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft investigates Israeli military\u2019s use of Azure cloud storage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}