Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text


Frequenters of India's online
Microsoft Store were briefly
greeted with the suspicious
visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this
morning, following a hack that
compromised the site's user
database. According to WPSauce,
Microsoft Store India's landing
page was briefly taken over by a
hacker group called Evil Shadow
Team, who, in addition to
putting a new face on Windows
products, revealed that user
passwords were saved in plain
text. The group's motivations are
unknown, though the hacked
page warned that an "unsafe
system will be baptized." The
store is now offline, suggesting
that Microsoft may have
regained control. Read on for a
look at the compromised
password database.http://ksp2347.blogspot.com