While the conversation between the Microsoft employees through emails looked like they were bit worried of the ongoing attacks, but that was not enough because these conversations which should have been private, was made Public by Syrian Electronic Army. The SEA seemed to be able to monitor their email conversation and was one step ahead of them, it looked like Syrian Electronic Army played like Secret service Agents and spied over the mails of Microsoft’s employs who were affected in the attack.
Yesterday’s story did not end up with the Microsoft News Twitter account being hijacked, for that seemed like a trailer in view of what SEA has planned for Microsoft. Just after 3 hours of attack over the Microsoft news twitter account, they hacked into Official Microsoft blog
Now the The Official Microsoft Blog Redirecting to #SEA website: https://t.co/yhFfqJZYRp #SyrianElectronicArmy
โ SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) January 12, 2014
To make the matters worse, it was not only that SEA tweeted it, but it was confirmed by several other peoples too, that the blog was redirecting to SEA’s website.
While the hack was being carried out, SEA also continuously monitored email conversations between the Microsoft staff
Two of the tweets from SEA one after another shows the email conversation between the staffs,
What @Microsoft staff are doing now. #SEA pic.twitter.com/nAij4vyFeu
โ SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) January 12, 2014
What @Microsoft staff are doing – Part 2 #SEA pic.twitter.com/H7sV91VvJW
โ SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) January 12, 2014
While the Microsoft blog was hacked and with few Articles being posted by SEA, the hack also effected the Microsoft official website, The news section on the website which is designed to show the news feeds from Blog page, was showing feeds of the Article written by SEA.