Microsoft confirms hack attack mirroring recent Facebook break-in
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Feb. 13, 2013: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates seen during the inauguration of a new research center for the International Center for Improvement of Corn and Wheat (CIMMYT) in Texcoco, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Microsoft has joined the list of prominent technology companies confirming they have been hit by a recent computer hacking attack.
In a blog posting Friday, Microsoft said it had found no evidence that any customer data had been heisted.
Microsoft Corp. gave few other details about the break-in, except to say that was it similar to a hacking attack that online social networking leader Facebook Inc. disclosed last week. Facebook had said its investigation had discovered other companies had been hacked, but didn't identify the other victims.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Like Facebook, Microsoft says it is still investigating how malicious software was planted on what it said were a small number of its computers.
Online messaging service Twitter also recently disclosed that hackers may have stolen information about 250,000 of its users.