Reports are spreading that on New Years Day the Facebook and Twitter accounts and blog for Microsoft's Skype were hacked by the SEA (Syrian Electronic Army).
[UPDATE: A Skype spokesperson contacted us with this statement: "We recently became aware of a targeted cyber attack that led to access to Skype's social media properties, but these credentials were quickly reset. No user information was compromised."]
As of 16:20 EST the Facebook and Twitter accounts seem clean, but the SEA post to the Skype blog is still up:
At this point, Microsoft is redirecting traffic from blogs.skype.com to the Skype home page (www.skype.com).
The account under which the blog was posted, Shana Pearlman, also displays SEA lines: "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army.. Stop Spying!" and "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail,outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments." [Note: Just to be clear, we have no reason to believe Microsoft is actually doing this.]
A similar message on Microsoft's Twitter account was captured by @charlesarthur:
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