Microsoft confirms phishing attack compromised the employee's email account

Social Engineering attacks is one of the most successful attack method- Even the system which is claimed to be 100% secure can be hacked, if an attacker is able to manipulate one employee.

We recently covered a news about the recent Microsoft's twitter account hack in which Syrian hackers compromised the email accounts of Microsoft's employees through a phishing attack.

Microsoft has finally admitted that the Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into several Microsoft employee email accounts via phishing attack.

"A social engineering cyberattack method known as phishing resulted in a small number of Microsoft employee social media and email accounts being impacted." Microsoft spokesperson said in an email sent to Geekwire.

Microsoft said that the compromised accounts have been recovered.  They also claimed that no customer info stolen in the attak.

"We continue to take a number of actions to protect our employees and accounts against this industry-wide issue."