News.com is reporting that the Syrian Electronic Army has pulled off another hack. This time they’ve apparently made life miserable for Microsoft:
While it’s been known for a couple of days that the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Microsoft News Twitter account, it’s been revealed that the hackers also got into the Twitter accounts of Xbox and Xbox Support, along with Xbox’s Instagram account, according toGameSpot.
The political hacking group that supports Syrian President Bashar Assad posted screengrabs of its exploits on its own Twitter account. The hack consisted of the Syrian Electronic Army writing messages on Xbox‘s accounts that read, “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” and “Game On!” The group also posted images of Xbox’s Twitter and Instagram accounts showing that it allegedly had administrator access.
Microsoft’s accounts have since been wiped clean and a company spokesperson told CNET on Saturday that “Microsoft is aware of targeted cyberattacks that temporarily affected the Xbox Support and Microsoft News Twitter accounts. The accounts were quickly reset and we can confirm that no customer information was compromised.”
So it fits the same sort of pattern that have been seen in the past from this group. That is the defacement of social media accounts. Though I am expecting the group to raise the stakes and do something more “interesting” at some point. Thus I suspect that efforts to catch the group will only increase seeing as the FBI are already looking for them.