Hackers Steal Law Enforcement Documents From Microsoft

wiredmikey writes "Microsoft on Friday said that attackers breached the email accounts of a "select number" of employees, and obtained access to documents associated with law enforcement inquiries. According to the company, a number of Microsoft employees were targeted with attacks aiming to compromise both email and social media accounts '..We have learned that there was unauthorized access to certain employee email accounts, and information contained in those accounts could be disclosed,' said Adrienne Hall, General Manager at Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. 'It appears that documents associated with law enforcement inquiries were stolen,' Hall said. Targeted attacks like this are not uncommon, especially for an organization like Microsoft. What's interesting about this is that the incident was significant enough to disclose, indicating that a fair number of documents could have been exposed, or that the company fears some documents will make their way to the public if released by the attackers—which may be the case if this was a 'hacktivist' attack."

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We have the so called "law enforcement documents"

[th3pr0]

I'm from the Syrian Electronic army, we have the documents this article spoke of and will be sending them to the media. We have every intention of releasing them for the public to see. They call them "law enforcement" documents to pretend they have done nothing wrong, but the facts will be clear soon when it shows the correlation to the "PRISM" program discussed in Snowden's leaks. What you have here is Microsoft's confirmation that these documents are genuine. They are attempting to preempt their publication by putting forward a plausible back story. Just wait and see....