Social Media Accounts of Skype become prey of a hacking attack

Skype, however, assured of no user information being compromised in the hack

Skype, the famous online Voice Over IP and Instant Messaging system, recently recovered from a hacking incidence. Skype commented that the attack lead to compromising the social media properties via a Group that addressed itself as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), who has taken credit for this hacking attack.

Skype in a tweet said its social media properties were targeted, but it did not affect the info of the users even slightly. The company regretted about the inconvenience users faced. The Skype blog, Twitter account and Facebook page were attacked by SEA, a group supporting Syrian government. The Skype blog even after the news became public was inaccessible and users were automatically directed to the home page.

The Twitter account of Skype had a reproduced tweet by SEA, which said that using Microsoft emails, can lead to a data breach and account monitoring, where the info would be sold to the government. Another post on Twitter supposedly by the CEO at Microsoft Steve Ballmer, read that users can thank Microsoft for monitoring their emails/accounts using the details.

This attack on social media accounts of Skype seems to be related with the disclosures through newspapers by the past contractor at U.S. National Security Agency, Edward Snowden. It addressed that the online companies allegedly present the agency real-time access to content posted on their servers with reasons linked to surveillance and security.

The SEA prior to this has attacked many Twitter accounts and high-profile sites. Some attacks in the past entail an attack on Australian domain registrar, on Melbourne IT and even the website of New York Times, Twitter and many more high-profile websites, with all these to the credit of SEA.

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