Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Official Twitter Account of Microsoft

Microsoft News Twitter account, which the company uses to distribute company updates and press releases, has been hacked by The Syrian Electronic Army.

Mashable reports that The Microsoft News (@MSFTnews) verified account posted the above tweet just after 8.30a.m WAT on satuday before it was quickly removed.

The Microsoft News account also tweeted the following screenshot of other tweets and retweets it allegedly posted.

When Mashable asked why the SEA targeted Microsoft, Syrian Eagle provided the following response:

"Microsoft is monitoring emails accounts and selling the data for the American intelligence and other governments. 

And we will publish more details and documents that prove it 

Microsoft is not our enemy but what they are doing affected the SEA."

The hack comes just 10 days after the group, known to favor Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, took over Skype's Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as its official blog.