Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-01-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Microsoft News
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Syrian Electronic Army
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Syrian Arab Republic
Description: In the same campaign the Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Twitter Xbox Support account, the Xbox Twitter and Instagram, the Microsoft News Twitter account, and Microsoft employees.