“It seems like it has been a while since we were witnessing major hacks on corporate websites, but an entity calling themselves the ‘Outlaw Group’ has successfully defaced a Microsoft site. The MS Press site for the UK has been pulled for now, but so-called crackers managed to get access to the site and modify text on the page. The changes made were minimal, including three repetitions of ‘Owned by Outlaw Group,’ and a title of ‘Owned Outlaw Group by Pharoeste e WolfBlack.’ The majority of the page was not modified, but the breach is clearly an embarrassment to the company. No word from Microsoft on the matter, yet,” Ken ‘Caesar’ Fisher reports for Ars Technica.
Full article and links to screen shots of the defaced page here.