Filed under: Security Hotmail in Israel has been Hacked!

by Nithin Ramesh on Jun 10th, 2010

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It looks like Hotmail and MSN’s Israel site has been hacked a few hours ago. Those who visited the site was shown a page that said that the site has been hacked by TurkSec. The following image was posted on the Neowin forums

hotmail hacked Hotmail in Israel has been Hacked!

At the time of writing of this article, it looks like the Microsoft engineers have regained control and we are getting  the following page.

hotmail suspended 1024x589 Hotmail in Israel has been Hacked!

Update: This is what actually happened according to Microsoft

Our investigation has shown that there was no attack against Microsoft properties or customers. In this case, attackers contacted a third party domain registrar posing as Microsoft and succeeded in having Microsoft-bound traffic directed to other, non-Microsoft systems.

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