{"id":43265,"date":"2012-02-13T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43265"},"modified":"2012-02-13T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:01:24","slug":"microsoft-indias-retail-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/43265-microsoft-indias-retail-website-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft India&#8217;s retail website hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> India&#8217;s retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers&#8217; usernames and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Store India (www.microsoftstore.co.in) website showed an error message promising to restore access as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers obscured the full usernames and passwords in the screen shots posted on a blog run by Evil Shadow Team member 7z1 (ps.s.blog.163.com). Writing in Mandarin, 7z1 describes himself as a &#8220;patriotic hacker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Indian edition of Microsoft Store is operated by local company Quasar Media. A spokesman said the company was investigating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not sure when the site will be up again or what happened,&#8221; spokesman Rahul Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman at Microsoft India said he was unable to immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft India&#8217;s retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers&#8217; usernames and passwords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":29770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,8831,123,8833],"class_list":["post-43265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-evil-shadow-team","tag-microsoft","tag-quasar-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43267,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43265\/revisions\/43267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}