Microsoft’s Korea site hacked
p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz have admitted they have no idea how many users of their www.msn.co.kr in South Korea were victims of hackers who penetrated the site to steal passwords.
But they’re blaming a failure to apply Microsoft fix-it patches for the attack.
Microsoft claims it, “removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers had added earlier this week,” says the Associated Press on the MSNBC page.
“A spokesman, Adam Sohn, said Microsoft was confident its English-language Web sites were not vulnerable to the same type of attack.”
www.msn.co.kr carries news and other information plus links to the company’s free e-mail and search services.
“Its English-language equivalent is the default home Internet page for the newest versions of its flagship Windows software sold in the United States,” says the story, going on that unlike US versions, the Korean site is operated by another company “Microsoft did not identify”.
Microsoft and Korean police authorities were investigating, “but Microsoft believes the computers were vulnerable because operators failed to apply necessary software patches,“ said Sohn.
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See:-
Associated Press – Microsoft admits MSN South Korea was hacked, June 2, 2005
