Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
February 19, 2026
•TechCrunch_AI•Moderate impact
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•Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission.
•The bug, reported by Bleeping Computer, allowed Copilot Chat to read and outline the contents of emails since January, even if customers had data loss prevention policies.
•Microsoft rolled out a fix for the bug in February. The European Parliament blocked built-in AI features on lawmakers' work devices due to concerns about uploading potentially confidential correspondence to the cloud.
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