confidential data exposure

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, briefly read and summarized emails that organizations had explicitly labeled “Confidential,” exposing a gap between automated AI convenience and long‑standing enterprise access controls...

Microsoft’s own service advisory confirms that a logic error in Microsoft 365 Copilot allowed the assistant to process and summarize email messages labeled “Confidential” in users’ Sent Items and Drafts folders — and that the company began rolling a server-side fix in early February 2026...