Hackers taunt Skype: 'Stop spying on people!'2014-01-02 10:19 by DanielaTags: Skype, spying, surveillance
The official blog and social network accounts for Microsoft's Web calling service Skype appear to have been breached. A post published Wednesday on the official Skype blog featured the headline, "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.. Stop Spying!" The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp's retiring chief executive, on its Twitter account along with the message, "You can thank Microsoft for monitoring your accounts/emails using this details. #SEA" That message was an apparent reference to revelations last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, was part of the NSA's program to monitor communications through some of the biggest U.S. Internet companies. The hacker collective - which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, currently embroiled in a two-year- long civil war that has claimed at least 100,000 lives - has previously hacked accounts belonging to The New York Times, BBC, Associated Press and other media organizations. Read more -here-
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