<p>Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers' usernames and passwords.<br /><br /></p>.<p> The Microsoft Store India (www.microsoftstore.co.in) website showed an error message promising to restore access as quickly as possible. <br /><br />The hackers obscured the full usernames and passwords in the screen shots posted on a blog run by Evil Shadow Team member 7z1 (ps.s.blog.163.com). Writing in Mandarin, 7z1 describes himself as a "patriotic hacker".<br /> </p>.<p>The Indian edition of Microsoft Store is operated by local company Quasar Media. A spokesman said the company was investigating. </p>.<p>"I am not sure when the site will be up again or what happened," spokesman Rahul Roy said. </p>.<p>A spokesman at Microsoft India said he was unable to immediately comment.</p>
<p>Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers' usernames and passwords.<br /><br /></p>.<p> The Microsoft Store India (www.microsoftstore.co.in) website showed an error message promising to restore access as quickly as possible. <br /><br />The hackers obscured the full usernames and passwords in the screen shots posted on a blog run by Evil Shadow Team member 7z1 (ps.s.blog.163.com). Writing in Mandarin, 7z1 describes himself as a "patriotic hacker".<br /> </p>.<p>The Indian edition of Microsoft Store is operated by local company Quasar Media. A spokesman said the company was investigating. </p>.<p>"I am not sure when the site will be up again or what happened," spokesman Rahul Roy said. </p>.<p>A spokesman at Microsoft India said he was unable to immediately comment.</p>