ID: IRCNE2014012068
Date: 2013-01-13
According to "zdnet", ten days after Microsoft's Skype social media resources were hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, the Microsoft News Twitter account — @MSFTNews — was hijacked. Within an hour the tweets were removed, but you can see them nearby in a screen grab from the Twitter feed widget on the Microsoft News Center web page.
Microsoft never said what the cause was behind the Skype hijack, but it may have been the compromise of a user who had access to those accounts. The same may be true here.
In the case of the Skype hijack, multiple resources were captured: a blog, a Facebook page and a Twitter feed.
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