14 DAY TRIAL // The official Greener IT Challenge website that belongs to Microsoft was affected by a small security flaw that allowed wrongdoers to steal the details of users participating in web-based quiz.
Basically, visitors who completed a quiz regarding environmentally-friendly computers were provided with a certificate included in a PDF file that could then be printed.
The Register writes that a security flaw in this website allowed hackers to quickly get into the database and steal the emails of all those who took the quiz. Of course, all these emails could be then used for spamming or phishing campaigns, so Microsoft had to deal with the glitch as soon as possible.
The same report claims that the tech giant has already patched the glitch, so users who complete the quiz now are 100 percent protected.
“We have now resolved this issue so all users are anonymous and their information is private,” the company explained.