Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft News And XBox Support Twitter Accounts
It’s barely a few weeks into 2014, and the Syrian Electronic Army has wielded its power yet again.
The victim this time? Microsoft, whose @XboxSupport and Microsoft News (@MSFTnews) Twitter accounts were hacked on Saturday.
As Mashable reports, @MSFTnews posted the following tweet just after 2:30 p.m. ET, before it was quickly removed:
Mashable’s SEA contact, dubbed Syrian Eagle, provided them with the following reasoning behind the hacking:
“Microsoft is monitoring emails accounts and selling the data for the American intelligence and other governments.
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