Remember that nasty incident earlier this month where the online Microsoft storefront in India — whose operation, by the way, was outsourced to a local Indian company called Quasar Media — had their users’ passwords stored in plain text in the database? At the time, it was thought that no serious financial information was compromised. However, Microsoft has just sent out a new followup email with users of the Microsoft Store India website stating otherwise.
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Microsoft’s online store in India has been hacked by a Chinese hacker group that goes by the name of EvilShadow. While the hack seems to have been done for fun — and not as a social or political protest — the hackers still managed to gain access to the database, where passwords were stored in plaintext.
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