Hackers taunt Skype: 'Stop spying on people!' - CNET

Rabu, 01 Januari 2014

Hackers taunt Skype: 'Stop spying on people!' - CNET

The Syrian Electronic Army targets the public faces of Skype, hacking messages to its blog and to its Twitter and Facebook accounts.

January 1, 2014 2:19 PM PST

A Skype window in Outlook.com. Who else might be listening in as you video chat?

(Credit: Microsoft/Screenshot by CNET)

The publicity-minded Syrian Electronic Army on Wednesday targeted the public faces of Microsoft-owned Skype, posting antisurveillance messages to the video-chat service's blog and to its Twitter and Facebook accounts.

On Skype's Twitter account, for instance, this message appeared: "Stop spying on people! via Syrian Electronic Army." That tweet, noted quickly by The Next Web, was removed within an hour, but a record of it lingered a bit longer on Skype's Web site. (We've posted a screenshot below.)

The Skype blog carried a similar headline: "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.. Stop Spying!"

Over at Facebook, meanwhile, the Skype account featured a broader message about Microsoft's online services: "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail,outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling it to the governments. More details soon. #SEA." That post, too, was quickly deleted, but not before TNW got a screenshot.

CNET has contacted Microsoft for comment and will update this post when we get a response.