Skype under Attack

A group of hackers known as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has hacked the media platform, Skype, which permits voice and video calls. The group hacked Microsoft owned Skype and posted messages warning people not to use email services (hotmail, outlook) provided by Microsoft. The hackers also claimed Microsoft monitors users email account and sell their data to the government.

Skype has confirmed the hack but denied the allegations by the hackers group. The Syrian hackers were responsible for the recent attack on New York Times and Twitter and have also revealed threat to attack BBC, CNN, Guardian and others.

Report has revealed that Skype has been providing information to the US surveillance even before Microsoft bought the company.

A man named Edward Snowden leaked that US National Security Agency (NSA) has access to the servers of nine major technology companies which include Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. However, all these companies denied their involvement in the backdoor access.