The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group appears to have hacked Skype’s social media accounts.
Microsoft-owned Skype’s Twitter account on Wednesday displayed the message: “Don’t use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. More details soon #SEA.”
The SEA’s latest attack appears to be linked to documents released by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, which revealed the PRISM surveillance program.
PRISM is said to give the NSA and FBI easy access to the systems of nine of the world’s top Internet companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Skype.
The program apparently allowed the NSA to spy on audio and video calls using so-called secret backdoors. Skype has denied the existence of such access.
Tech blogs said that at one point, the Skype blog had the headline: “Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.. Stop Spying!”
Skype’s Twitter account was also said to have posted the message: “Stop spying on people! via Syrian Electronic Army.”
But links provided by the SEA’s Twitter account to Skype’s blog and Facebook account did not work, and the SEA messages appeared to have apparently been removed.
Source: Aljazeera
