After hitting his blog Skype and official accounts on the social networks of the popular VoIP platform, the hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army managed to breach the official account of Microsoft on Twitter.
Syrian Electronic Army violated its official account Microsoft on twitter, με το όνομα “Microsoft News”, ο οποίος usesfor news updates.
Η infringement this is the second to date on a Microsoft account, after earlier the Xbox Twitter account was hacked.
With the name "Microsoft News"Messages were sent on twitter stating:
"Do not use Microsoft e-mail (hotmail, outlook). They monitor your accounts and sell the data to governments. #SEA ”Hackers tweeted from the @MSFTnews account”.
In another tweet, the hackers wrote mocking IE "Leak: The top two links you've visited from @ IE: google.com/chrome and Mozilla.org/firefox # SEA"
As everything shows, the hackers did not stop there since they managed to breach an account as well e-mail, a Microsoft employee, reporting the Twitter hack to Microsoft staff. The Hacking News, even posted an email photo.