Microsoft India Retail Store Down After Hacked By Chinese Group
|Software Giant, Microsoft’s retail business website in India got hacked by group of Chinese hackers named “Evil Shadow”. Hackers stealed the log in id’s and passwords of Microsoft customers who used this retail website for purchasing products and services.
Microsoft India Retail Store website still down and the site running a message “The Microsoft Store India is currently unavailable. Microsoft is working to restore access as quickly as possible.”
Unfortunately hackers also released the usernames and passwords of Microsoft customers that are stored in plain text format.
The store is owned and operated by a company named Quasar Media. As per the latest reports the company started the investigation.
Microsoft still not made any official comment on the hacking of their retail store in India.