Thousands retweets: Hackers commandeer Skype's Twitter account
Not resolved to have appropriated the online records of the Microsoft Skype benefit. Assailants approach writes and accounts on Facebook and Twitter. A critical Microsoft message that they posted on Skype's Twitter account has been retweeted a great many circumstances.
Those Skype account Skype followers, received late Wednesday to read an extraordinary message. Use non-Microsoft e-mail (hotmail, outlook) to observe your account and sell data to the government. More information about that in a short time. "Is a message published there. The announcement was signed with #SEA, the initials of the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group, close to Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
Obviously, strangers have captured access data for Skype's Facebook access and so they have spread their message on behalf of Microsoft's services. In the same way they have reported also Twitter take Skype account and Skype blog. How the culprit to the access data is unclear.
The message is published by the unknown on different platforms on behalf of Skype has similar content. As said in a Tweet Skype: "Stop following people!" The title of the Skype blog is, "Attacked by Syrian electronic troops.
In this action, apparently politically motivated hackers want to once again draw attention to the allegations that Microsoft's Skype parent company is working with US intelligence agencies. In July 2013, the British Guardian published a report, according to documents from whistle blower Edward Snowden, suggesting that the company has worked extensively with US intelligence services for many years. .
According to the Guardian, the company has allowed intelligence agencies to record both video and audio conversations as part of the Prism monitoring program. Microsoft says it will only release customer data in accordance with regulatory requirements as required by the government.
On Wednesday night, Skype took control of the situation again after about two hours. Startled by suggestions for hacked accounts, company employees reset access data for Skype accounts on Twitter and Facebook. Anyone trying to access the Skype Blog has been redirected to the service's home page. Messages placed by hackers have been deleted. Until then, however, the tweet in question was retweeted over 8000 times according to a screenshot of "The Verge".
Those Skype account Skype followers, received late Wednesday to read an extraordinary message. Use non-Microsoft e-mail (hotmail, outlook) to observe your account and sell data to the government. More information about that in a short time. "Is a message published there. The announcement was signed with #SEA, the initials of the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group, close to Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
Obviously, strangers have captured access data for Skype's Facebook access and so they have spread their message on behalf of Microsoft's services. In the same way they have reported also Twitter take Skype account and Skype blog. How the culprit to the access data is unclear.
The message is published by the unknown on different platforms on behalf of Skype has similar content. As said in a Tweet Skype: "Stop following people!" The title of the Skype blog is, "Attacked by Syrian electronic troops.
In this action, apparently politically motivated hackers want to once again draw attention to the allegations that Microsoft's Skype parent company is working with US intelligence agencies. In July 2013, the British Guardian published a report, according to documents from whistle blower Edward Snowden, suggesting that the company has worked extensively with US intelligence services for many years. .
According to the Guardian, the company has allowed intelligence agencies to record both video and audio conversations as part of the Prism monitoring program. Microsoft says it will only release customer data in accordance with regulatory requirements as required by the government.
On Wednesday night, Skype took control of the situation again after about two hours. Startled by suggestions for hacked accounts, company employees reset access data for Skype accounts on Twitter and Facebook. Anyone trying to access the Skype Blog has been redirected to the service's home page. Messages placed by hackers have been deleted. Until then, however, the tweet in question was retweeted over 8000 times according to a screenshot of "The Verge".
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