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Azure AD tenants experience hostile takeovers; attackers brute-force passwords for users or reuse leaked credentials and then make their way to privileged accounts to take over the tenant. The percentage of tenants that experience this problem is tiny, but the scale of Azure means it happens to a couple of thousand tenants per day. When Microsoft detects this situation, they contact the owner of the tenant to help them regain control. However, for a lot of tenants the contact information is not provided or it's out of date.
The information for the Technical contact on the Directory properties pane is only used for these purposes. The information for the Global privacy contact and Privacy statement URL are accessible from ...
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