Monday, February 13th 2012
Microsoft Store India Hacked
Microsoft Store's Indian site was compromised, by a hacker group that calls itself "Evil Shadow Team". The site's landing page was briefly taken over by the group, which gained access to the user database. The group then replaced the front-page with its signature, that warned that an "unsafe system will be baptized." The outrageous part of this episode is that the group claimed Microsoft was storing the user database in plain text, which contains usernames, email addresses, and passwords. The site is now offline, the company is probably back in control. Microsoft Store was started in India to discourage piracy and offer genuine copies of Windows, Office, Visual Studio, at the lowest possible prices; Xbox consoles and accessories; and Microsoft hardware (peripherals).
Sources:
Engadget, WPSauce
16 Comments on Microsoft Store India Hacked
The Change that will hammer and mould this world into the form,that it should have had since thousands of years.
Anyway anonymous strikes again at a soft target. Wish they would do something productive like go after the Mexican cartels.......oh wait they ran from those guys. Guess it only pays to be 1337 against people who wont kill you or care about you. I mean honestly. I could support anonymous if they did something like that. Something to stop murder and such. Instead all they do are little social justice stunts that make em look like kids.
This is only a sign, nothing more. Eruptions gonna get bigger.
Think about it, when prohibition was going on the only people that were making money off of it were the mobs. As soon as prohibition was repealed, all of those mobs basically disbanded since they didnt really have as lucrative of a product. And then the gov't taxed it and started making money off of it.
Hacking their sites would do absolutely notjing to quell their business.