Microsoft’s India store hacked – Latest News
A big shocking news for technology seekers that Microsoft has stopped today after Indian web store
users login hacked by Chinese hackers.
According to reports, the company's retail website (www.microsoftstore.co.in), which sells Microsoft
products, was hacked by a Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team.
Confirming the attack, a Microsoft spokeswoman said the website has been taken down and "Microsoft
is investigating a limited compromise of the company's online store in India."
WPSauce first reported about the incident, and according to a statement in the report, "It has been
hacked by EvilShadow team – 7z1&Ancker. From the tiny little flag and blog links, it looks like the
hackers are from China. Their motivation is unknown at this point."
sites. Currentlyhttp://www.microsoftstore.co.in/ is close and with message “”" The Microsoft Store
India is currently unavailable. Microsoft is working to restore access as quickly as possible. We
apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. ”"
While it is troublesome that hackers were able to breach security at a website owned by one of the
biggest IT companies in the world, it is more alarming that user details - login ids and passwords -
were reportedly stored in plain text file, without any encryption.
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