On Friday evening, Microsoft announced via its security blog that it, too, had been the victim of a cyber attack, comparing its situation to the likes of Facebook’s and Apple’s recentsecurity breaches.“During our investigation, wefound a small number ofcomputers, including some in ourMac business unit, that wereinfected by malicious softwareusing techniques similar to those documented by other organizations,” - wrote MattThomlinson, General Manager ofTrustworthy Computing Security,in a company post.Microsoft claims no evidence ofcustomer data beingcompromised.The security breach of theRedmond-based softwarecompany is just one in a series of high-profile tech company hacks,starting earlier this month withTwitter’s announcement that the data of some 250,000 user accounts could potentially havebeen compromised.As we reported earlier in the week, laptops belonging toemployees at Facebook, Apple andpossibly Twitter were infected with malware after visiting any Phone-focused software developer site. Sources have told All Things that many other companies could have been infected by the malware-spreading site, and perhaps many more will disclose similar instances of hacking in the coming weeks.And just yesterday, customer service management provider ZenDesk announced that it had been hacked as well. The fall out from that hack affected some of the companies ZenDesk provides its services to, including Pinterest,Twitter and Tumblr. Microsoft did not respond to a request for further comment !!!
