Microsoft India store hacked. User log-in's compromised

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NEW DELHI: Hackers, allegedly belonging to a Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team, struck at www.microsoftstore.co.in on Sunday night, stealing login ids and passwords of people who had used the website for shopping Microsoft Products.

While it is troublesome that hackers were able to breach security at a website owned by one of the biggest IT companies in the world, it is more alarming that user details - login ids and passwords - were reportedly stored in plain text file, without any encryption.

Following the hack, the members of Evil Shadow Team, posted a message on the Microsoft website saying "unsafe system will be baptized". The story was first reported by www.wpsauce.com.

Source/Read More: Times of India

Microsoft India Store

[BoredBozirini]

Leave it to Microsoft to store sensitive information in plain text.

[n_K]

Already posted for crying out loud.

[cooky560 Veteran]

Considering how Windows Live! Accounts are very global, doesn't infact effect most people in the world?