'Syrian Electronic Army' Hacks Microsoft Twitter Account
19 October 2018 21:19 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Software giant Microsoft has not seem to be one-hundred percent free from hackers. Microsoft's official Twitter account posted a weird instruction on January 11 that reads: "Don't use Microsoft emails (Hotmail, Outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. #SEA @Official_SEA16."
CNET reported that the Microsoft twitter account has been hacked by perpetrators who called themselves SEA, or the 'Syrian Electronic Army', who claimed to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Previously, SEA has claimed to hack official Twitter account of BBC and Skype. A follow-up tweet on Saturday also issued through the Microsoft News Twitter account, showed an image of the Syrian flag with the message: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA16 #SEA."
CNET has also reported the response from Microsoft regarding this hacking. "Microsoft is aware of targeted cyber attacks that temporarily affected the Xbox Support and Microsoft News Twitter accounts. The accounts were quickly reset and we can confirm that no customer information was compromised," said a Microsoft's spokesperson.
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