Microsoft confirms Syrian Electronic Army hacked into employee email accounts

Microsoft confirms Syrian Electronic Army hacked into employee email accounts

Jan 15th 2014, 21:35, by Tom Warren

Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that a "small number" of employee email accounts were accessed during the latest round of attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group postedthree internal emails that appear to have been obtained from several Microsoft employee’s Outlook Web Access accounts. The emails mainly discuss the latest compromises of several Microsoft-owned Twitter accounts, but they do show that the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) gained much greater access beyond just social network accounts.
"A social engineering cyberattack method known as phishing resulted in a small number of Microsoft employee social media and email accounts being impacted," says a Microsoft spokesperson. "These accounts were reset and...
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